Michael Braungart, one of the best-known environmental chemists in Germany, talks about Greta Thunberg, the Greens and the climate apocalypse.
- In an interview, eco-expert Michael Braungart talks about Greta Thunberg and the Greens .
- He describes the dealings with the young climate activist as “ridiculous”.
- The party he co-founded doesn't get away well either.
Hamburg - Michael Braungart can look back on an eventful fight for the environment for the climate. He started as a Greenpeace activist and later founded the Greens. In an interview with the Flensburger Tageblatt , he talks about Greta Thunberg and today's climate catastrophes.
Greta Thunberg: eco-expert gets excited about young climate activist
Greta Thunberg * is the heroine of the climate protection activists of "Fridays for Future". But not for Braungart: “You can only see black and white. I used my life at Greenpeace to stop poison. I breathed in endless dirt, radioactive dusts. And then someone sits in front of the parliament, doesn't go to school, is celebrated as a great resistance fighter and is proposed for the Nobel Prize. How ridiculous. I admit that provokes me. "
"I wonder, what will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing the climate chaos you knowingly brought upon them?"
Here's a clip from my speech addressing the #WorldEconomicForum in Davos today. Full speech here: https://t.co/qAJIqYXxhd#WEF2020 pic.twitter.com/8Ev3HqRY7d
Only recently had Greta Thunberg again criticized global environmental policy at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "Left, right, the middle - everyone failed," she criticizes. Braungart also appears to be unaffected by the “Fridays for Future” movement initiated by Thunberg *. “If a child had stood on Rathausmarkt in 1945 and complained: 'What kind of world are you leaving us?' I would have understood that. But today..."
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He also has few words of praise for the Greens, which Braungart helped to found. They are a wonderful “wellness party.” But their policies “have nothing to do with reality,” he told Flensburger Tageblatt. Many Greens would try, but unfortunately there were too few who knew.
Michael Braungart is a professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and scientific director of the Hamburg Environmental Institute.
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There was also excitement about a photo from Davos, on which climate activists from all over the world posed alongside Greta Thunberg. The African representative was cut out.
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