About changing your opinion…

It should be a natural and common thing to change your own view. Instead it creates almost a sensation if a well known person changes his or her opinion. Lately in Sweden, Marit Paulsen, an politician, writer and an old advocate of organic food, published a new book where she criticizes some of her old opinions. The reason is that ecological agriculture gives less production than ordinary agriculture and therefore need more energy per unit. And that is not good for the environment, particularly not for the climate.

However, why does it make big headlínes if someone changes his or her opinion? After all, as someone else, in old China I believe, wrote: If you have the same opinion today as the day before yesterday, what did you learn yesterday?

I have no desire to change my basic values (about equality etc) – but whenever I find a good reason to change my opinions (such as how to promote more equality), then I hope I won’t hesitate.

By the way, Marit Paulsen emphasizes in her new book that the most important contribution for the environment you can make when it comes to food is to finish all leftovers and throw away as little as possible. All production of food – ecological or not – require a lot of energy.