Because of Corona, the concerns of “Fridays for Future” have moved into the background - they have by no means disappeared.
They are directly related to the pandemic, says Luisa Neubauer.
Greta Thunberg colleague
Luisa Neubauer
has certain hopes in Armin Laschet (CDU).
On the
other hand, she accuses
the GroKo under Chancellor Angela Merkel of
three points
in a
Watson interview
.
The
activist has a clear demand for
the
economic course
after the corona vaccination.
Zurich - How do the
Fridays for Future activists
assess
the current climate policy?
Luisa Neubauer
has now given
her personal assessment
in an interview with the Swiss news site
Watson
- from Laschet to Söder to Merkel.
The
24-year-old
is the German figurehead of the movement originally from Sweden and a member of the Greens - but does not want to run for the Bundestag, but continues to rely on the
street protest
.
In Germany, people often believe “that one can free oneself from the consequences of climate change”, she stated in the interview about the fact that, according to
Germanwatch, it is
still one of the
top 20 countries
that are most affected by it.
According to the index,
10,700 people
died in this country
between 2000 and 2019 as a
result of
extreme weather conditions
- “that is unreasonable, it
cannot be justified politically,
” said Neubauer.
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Luisa Neubauer and Greta Thunberg spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about climate policy in August 2020
© picture alliance / dpa / Federal Government / Steffen Kugler
Greta Thunberg colleague Luisa Neubauer on Merkel & Co .: "Armin Laschet could create a big shift"
Hopefully, however, Neubauer's view of the USA.
The
climate protection plan
of US President Joe Biden is good, because he is now "under a lot of pressure to do justice to the climate protection activists".
She also
seems to believe
in the new CDU chairman and NRW Prime Minister
Armin Laschet
: "He could
create
a
major shift
if he manages to develop a Christian Democratic climate protection plan that does not
break
with the
Paris Agreement
."
The shift by Bavaria's Prime Minister
Markus Söder (CSU),
however, makes them skeptical.
Söder as climate chancellor?
"Even the most intimate embrace of a beech tree does not reverse the ecological destruction that the CSU is currently carrying," she scoffs, referring to how his party with "absurd distance
rules
for wind turbines" is
braking the
expansion of renewable energies
and the
sealing of areas
in " on an almost predatory scale ”.
"But maybe Mr. Söder will surprise us."
Luisa Neubauer: "To call Angela Merkel still today as climate chancellor, I would find cynical"
And she certainly does not want to get involved in any further attribution:
"To call Angela Merkel still today as climate chancellor, I would find cynical,"
said Neubauer to
Watson
.
Your criticisms:
The goals of the
Paris Climate Agreement
are even further away.
The
coal phase-out is
happening too late and too unfairly.
The
traffic
turnaround is only progressing slowly.
Neubauer's appeal for 2021: Den
Carry out economic reconstruction after
Corona in a
climate-friendly manner.
“There is a
direct connection
between the occurrence of
pandemics
and the fact that humans
continue to destroy
the
habitats of many wild animals
.
But this connection is still being negated ”, she is sure.
(frs)
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