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New BN boss: "I understand the last generation"

2022-12-04T13:50:39.172Z


New BN boss: "I understand the last generation" Created: 2022-12-04 2:39 p.m “I want to give my contribution back to society. As a thank you”: Josef Biesenberger, BN boss. © KEES Josef Biesenberger from Grafing is the new chairman of the Bund Naturschutz in the district of Ebersberg. In an interview, he explains what drives the 66-year-old. Mr. Biesenberger you can hardly be reached by mobile.


New BN boss: "I understand the last generation"

Created: 2022-12-04 2:39 p.m

“I want to give my contribution back to society.

As a thank you”: Josef Biesenberger, BN boss.

© KEES

Josef Biesenberger from Grafing is the new chairman of the Bund Naturschutz in the district of Ebersberg.

In an interview, he explains what drives the 66-year-old.

Mr. Biesenberger you can hardly be reached by mobile.

Why not?

I own a cell phone, but I only use it when I need to have an unavoidable conversation.

For example if I'm late.

For everything else, I have a landline phone and an email address.

Everything that comes over the cell phone is not binding enough for me.

That's not a lame excuse, it's just the way it is.

Because I keep it so strict, I feel really good.

You are the new chairman of the district group Ebersberg in the Bund Naturschutz.

What will be your first official act?

First of all, I would like to get in touch with the eight local groups and find out where the talents of the volunteers lie.

For me, they are the most important force in an organization.

For the next 100 days, I have also made it my goal to study first.

Listening a lot and getting a maximum of information from my predecessor Olaf Rautenberg.

For example, how the cooperation with the Lower Nature Conservation Authority works and where important allies can be found in other associations.

I'm still at the very beginning.

Your

predecessor, Olaf Rautenberg, fought against the horrendous use of land in the district.

What nature conservation priorities do you set?

My focus will be on raising the awareness of architects.

That we, as the Federation of Nature Conservation, will make specifications for new buildings and in the context of densification in the future.

For example, there should no longer be pure gravel gardens.

We also want to prescribe the use of energy: with district heating and photovoltaic systems, for example.

The architects, with whom we will cling in the future, are the key to this.

The district of Ebersberg wants to be climate-neutral by 2030.

How realistic do you think the project is?

Totally unrealistic.

For the district, being climate-neutral by 2030 means working in three sectors: electricity, heat and mobility.

However, as things currently stand, we have hardly improved in the sectors since 2018.

Only 15 percent run with the help of renewable energies.

In order to be able to become climate-neutral by 2030, we would need 25 wind turbines.

Five of them inevitably in the Ebersberg forest.

If the 10-H rule applies, it can also be closer to the edge of the forest, which would be more tolerable for the forest.

I can well imagine that the pace of the energy transition will increase in the coming years.

Your look into the crystal ball: where does the district have to tackle?

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One step would be to reorganize mobility.

Every new road construction, every new bypass road is not sustainable at all.

In 20 years there will be autonomous vehicles that can carry up to six people without a driver.

And they come by mobile request for collection.

This is a dynamic demand model in which there is no longer a timetable.

In this way we can expand the mobility of public transport.

The advantage: We will only see half as many cars on the streets.

Back to wind power in the forest: The Bund Naturschutz is repeatedly accused of betraying its goals by positioning itself for this expansion.

How do you see it?

I do not think so.

We are in a dilemma between protecting the people who currently operate windjammers and protecting nature.

Forest conversion – towards resistant tree species – is a crucial strategy.

The forest can be protected by being converted very slowly and in a nature-friendly manner over decades.

This happens through natural regeneration or the creation of a mixed forest.

But that takes time.

That's not enough for the pace of climate change.

That is why wind turbines are important.

Of course we look at the locations beforehand.

Our task now is to advise and not actively intervene.

From my point of view, the Bund Naturschutz is not betraying its basic position.

Recently, activists from the “Last Generation” have been throwing mashed potatoes at paintings or gluing themselves onto streets.

What do you think?

I think it's overdue for the younger generation to raise their voices.

The movement is screaming, and rightly so.

We established people, that is all adults over 30, live on too big a scale.

Suitability for grandchildren is the magic word here and the last generation are our grandchildren.

So I have full understanding for protests of all kinds, as long as they take place on the basis of the rule of law.

However, within the framework of the right to demonstrate, I think it is legitimate to stick yourself somewhere for a few minutes.

It is important that no property damage is done.

You do voluntary work in many organizations.

What is your personal motivation?

I would like to give my contribution back to society.

As thanks.

I only pick out things that I enjoy.

So there is a green band running through all my activities.

I want to keep the world a bit more liveable.

But at the moment I'm on the fence.

I will not accept any further honorary posts for the time being.

The conversation was conducted by Anna Liebelt

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