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"Climate change is also in Wolfratshausen": Activists call for action

2022-09-25T10:10:17.086Z


"Climate change is also in Wolfratshausen": Activists call for action Created: 09/25/2022, 11:57 am By: Dominik Stallein A lot of traffic for climate protection: 130 activists protested on Friday at a "Wor for Future" demo. According to “Fridays for Future”, over 280,000 people took part in the global climate strike day across Germany. © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss 130 activists took part in the Fri


"Climate change is also in Wolfratshausen": Activists call for action

Created: 09/25/2022, 11:57 am

By: Dominik Stallein

A lot of traffic for climate protection: 130 activists protested on Friday at a "Wor for Future" demo.

According to “Fridays for Future”, over 280,000 people took part in the global climate strike day across Germany.

© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

130 activists took part in the Friday demonstration in Wolfratshausen.

They gave the politicians a bad report - and are waiting for a conversation.

Wolfratshausen – The posters are clear: "It's not enough yet," said one.

"Climate change is also in Wolfratshausen", on another.

Around 130 climate protection activists took part in a “Wor for Future” demonstration on Friday afternoon.

One of them was twelve-year-old Mattis.

"It angers me that the adults of our generation leave behind a devastated earth," he said.

Then the seventh grader spoke about the effects of climate change that are already being felt today - and more: hailstorms over Wolfratshausen, forest fires in France, hot and dry summers, flood disasters like in the Ahr Valley.

"Maybe we can still change it - if we act now," said the twelve-year-old into the microphone to applause.

"Climate change is also in Wolfratshausen": Demo on Friday is very popular

The climate initiative has been trying to increase the pressure on politicians in the city and district for several months.

The activists do not shy away from clear words.

In an open letter, the alliance recently attacked the member of parliament Martin Bachhuber (CSU), district administrator Josef Niedermaier (free voters) and mayor Klaus Heilinglechner (citizens' association): They lacked "visions and action".

"All climate targets missed": Politics in Wolfratshausen reaps boos

In Loisachstadt, "all climate targets were missed," as Maren Reiners said on Friday.

This was acknowledged with boos from the crowd at Marienplatz.

City politics didn't fare very well in Reiner's speech.

"Is something being done in Wolfratshausen?" She asked the group - and immediately gave the answer: "No." Reiners emphasized that the rafting town was in last place in the district in terms of the share of renewable energies.

Wor for future meets with the mayor and wants to take action

For about a year, the activists have therefore been insisting before every city council meeting that something changes: every month between ten and 20 climate protectionists post posters in front of the Loisachhalle.

One who regularly demonstrates there is David von Westphalen.

He said on Friday: "All the time passed us by." Up to the most recent meeting of the council this week - there was a brief conversation with the mayor.

"We nailed it down to us being invited to a longer talk," says Westphalen.

He attributed Heilinglechner's offer to the perseverance of the activists.

"We were just a few people at the beginning" - and looked into 130 faces.

The aim is to bring in constructive suggestions and drive forward measures.

You want to explain to the politicians

why it is so important in Wolfratshausen to combat climate change.

The 130 demonstrators made a start on Friday.

Source: merkur

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