Paris and other cities in France decided to boycott to show the football world cup on big screens in public. I’m confident about this development. For a long time, the negative environmental effect and poor working conditions were nearly ignored by the media and the world.
It was only when more and more criticism arose that one could read about it in the press. Migrants from Bangladesh, Nepal and India have been exploited. But FIFA continues to ignore that several thousand workers are said to have died.
Nowadays, such an event in an extreme climatic zone is also questionable. While energy-saving solutions are being sought in many parts of the world, the World Cup is wasting energy by cooling the stadiums artificially to enable playing football. Does that still make sense?
