400 participants attended the “Fridays for Future” demonstration in Weilheim.
Many of them are adults.
Rightly, one thinks: "After all, we caused the disaster."
Weilheim
- Far more visitors than at most previous rallies came to the “Fridays for Future” demo on the Weilheimer Kirchplatz on Friday.
Among the approximately 400 participants, however, young people and schoolchildren were clearly in the minority.
A student (14) from Schongau had a simple explanation for this: Earlier rallies were mostly in the morning during school, yesterday's rallies after 1 p.m.
Another, older participant from Breitbrunn thinks there is nothing wrong with the fact that so many adults were there: "After all, we caused the disaster."
No mask, but distance
After a one-year demo break, this time the participants were allowed to do without mouth and nose protection, but not the distance regulation. This was pointed out by the spokesman for the Weilheim “Fridays for Future” group, Benjamin Göbel, who moderated the event. Anna, who attended the Montessori school in Peißenberg and was the first to step on the stage, wanted biodiversity instead of floods, droughts and contaminated seas, "so that she could breathe freely again". The representative of the Bund Naturschutz Weilheim, Thomas Vijverberg, addressed the topic of “traffic”: Among other things, he called for fewer parking spaces in city centers and higher parking fees. In lawsuits against new roads, such as the one currently in Dinkelsbühl, the Federal Nature Conservation Association is now relying on the Climate Protection Act for the first time - and with good prospects, as he said.
Maiken Winter: "Have to be consistent"
Professor Stefan Emeis from Weilheim spoke about the effects of climate change on the seas.
The sea level will rise by one meter by the end of the century, in 50 more years by almost two meters, a maximum of up to five meters: In addition, the climate expert and Weilheim city council had another piece of advice ready to give to the younger visitors: When fighting There are no simple answers to climate change.
Anyone who says otherwise should be mistrusted.
"We will have to feel something."
Maiken Winter, chairwoman of the “WissenLeben” association, warned about discipline: “We have to be consistent - also with ourselves.” Even if it annoys others sometimes, one has to keep talking about climate change.
"Today we can no longer pretend we didn't know," said Winter, before the rally continued with a train through the city center.
Johannes Thoma
