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Climate activist Luisa Neubauer: »Climate activists compared to Nazis«
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Climate activist Luisa Neubauer has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) of comparing "climate activists with Nazis".
In doing so, he put the Nazi regime into perspective, "and in a paradoxical way also the climate crisis," wrote Neubauer on Twitter on Sunday evening.
»He stylizes climate protection as an ideology with parallels to the Nazi regime.
In 2022. Jesus.
It's such a scandal."
In doing so, Neubauer was reacting to the chancellor's appearance at the Kirchentag in Stuttgart last Friday, which had been interrupted by several activists.
An activist had tried to storm the stage during the appearance of the SPD politician, but was prevented from doing so by security forces and led away.
Another activist shouted “bullshit” when Scholz was talking about phasing out coal-fired power generation and the jobs that would be lost in opencast mining as a result.
Scholz calls the action an "actually practiced performance"
Scholz commented on the disruption with the words: "I'll be honest, these black-clad productions at various events by the same people always remind me of a time that was long ago, and thank God." The action was an "acting practiced Appearance«.
This is not part of a discussion, »but this is an attempt to manipulate events for your own purposes.
You shouldn't do that.” Scholz received thunderous applause for this.
Climate activists say the federal government still isn't doing enough to stop climate change.
Even before the traffic light coalition was finalized, Neubauer criticized its ambitions as insufficient.
»We're not talking about the greening of government work, we're talking about comprehensive system changes that are pending.
Carrying on like this in eco-liberal is doomed to failure,” said activist Luisa Neubauer at a press conference in Berlin.
In order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, the young environmentalists are calling, among other things, for a corresponding CO2 budget to be adopted.
Other demands include a binding phase-out of coal by 2030, an installation ban on fossil combustion engines from 2025 and an immediate ban on new construction and expansion of motorways and federal roads.
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