Annalena Baerbock has to fight off a persistent questioner at an election campaign event for the federal election in 2021.
It's about the climate.
Gelsenkirchen - climate policy: It is the core topic in the election manifesto of the Greens for the federal election in 2021. An approach that polarizes.
This also happened at an election campaign event of the Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock: exchange of blows in the election campaign for the federal election in 2021
A spectator, only separated from Baerbock by a barricade, said, according to a video from
Der Westen
, that Germany is only responsible for a small part of global CO2 emissions. "What about the 98 percent?" She asked in the direction of the top candidate for the federal election: "Germany is exactly two percent!"
The 40-year-old from Lower Saxony did not leave that unanswered.
“If we proceeded with logic, then all other countries, and that is the majority of countries, would now say that you industrialized countries are responsible for the 1-degree global warming that we have now because you are the fossil fuels Fired up in the air in 1890, ”she said, warning that the whole world would argue:“ You were to blame in the past and others say we are only two percent ”.
In the video: Left alliance excluded - Baerbock would prefer to rule with the SPD
Subsequently, Baerbock gave a lecture on the flood disaster in the Ahr valley and in the Eifel, and on the forest fires in southern Europe.
The effects of the climate crisis are visible.
But this comparison did not fit the viewer at all.
Federal election 2021: Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock is touring Germany
"Two percent - you don't really want to make me believe that we are to blame for what happened in Ahrweiler ?!
What about China? ", Said the woman again in the direction of the Green Chancellor candidate and said that a party system would probably not be able to solve the climate challenge of the future.
“I believe in the strength of democracy!” Annalena Baerbock replied firmly.
The North German has been touring Germany for weeks, hoping to have even better prospects in the polls for the federal election.
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