'Last Generation': If Government Meets These Conditions, 'Let's Get Off the Streets'

Created: 05/12/2022 14:27

By: Moritz Serif

Carla Hinrichs, spokeswoman for the "Last Generation".

© Marlene Charlotte Limburg

Carla Hinrichs, from the “Last Generation”, finds RAF comparisons absurd.

Our current life will no longer exist in the next few decades.

Berlin – Carla Hinrichs, spokeswoman for the “Last Generation”, is ready to go to prison for her climate protest.

The idea is not beautiful and scary.

However, she is much more afraid of people fighting over resources such as water in the future.

Then wars for resources are possible, which could lead to a catastrophe.

Mankind is threatened with annihilation if the earth continues to warm up.

Hinrichs therefore calls on the government to act again and talks about the conditions under which the organization would stop its protests for the time being.

In an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau by IPPEN.MEDIA, she also talks about the latest RAF comparisons from politics and about the idea of ​​so-called green growth.

This is not possible on a planet with finite resources.

The public debate so far has revolved around your form of protest.

Let's rather talk about the impending climate catastrophe.

What will be the consequences for the planet and our lives if the 1.5 degree target is broken in the next three years? 

Everyone wants to talk about our protest, but nobody asks why young people are going into the resistance at all.

Why they are willing to go to prison.

It is relatively easy to research what the science says.

If the earth continues to heat up, by 2050 two-thirds of all harvests are threatened.

Where there is a lot of production, it gets too hot to grow food. 

What happens when crops fail?

Crop failures mean massive hunger.

people will flee.

There will be mass flight movements.

The course for this scenario has already been set because we will miss the 1.5 degree target.

We are even likely to end up with global warming of two to four degrees by the end of the century.

Even an increase of three degrees threatens resource wars.

This could lead to a world war. 

That happens when the earth warms up by two to three degrees

If the earth warms up by two to three degrees, extreme heat waves threaten, which in turn can lead to heat deaths and crop failures.

Wars for resources and global hunger crises are becoming more likely.

Species extinction continues to increase.

The risk of forest fires is increasing significantly - but so is the probability of extreme precipitation, such as that which occurred in the Ahr Valley in 2021.

Such incidents will become more frequent.

Ice sheets will melt, causing sea levels to rise.

Entire states could then be swallowed up by the water masses.

Mass refugee movements are coming towards the world community.

What are the demands of the “last generation”?

We demand action that cannot wait any longer.

The 9 euro ticket must be continued.

In addition, the state must introduce a speed limit of 100 km/h on motorways.

This allows us to save massive amounts of CO2 and enable the first step from switching to the train.

Basically it's really simple.

If CO2 is to be saved in order to protect our livelihoods, you can't race around on the freeway.

Germany is one of the few countries in the world where this is still possible, despite the emergency. 

'Last Generation': 'Then let's get off the streets and stop our protest'

Suppose the federal government fulfills your demands and the corresponding laws come into force.

Then we go off the street and stop our protest.

Our demands would be fulfilled.

If the government doesn't get the emergency under control, we'll go back to the streets.

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Do you intensify your protests if the current demands are not met?

Our protest will always remain peaceful.

This is the only way we can be successful.

Are you worried that people will be less interested in climate protection if the "last generation" forces the protests on them?

no

People want to live and will connect emotionally with the crisis and understand what the looming climate catastrophe will mean for them and their children.

I can't imagine a mother saying, "I'm so fed up with people sticking to the streets that I wish my child wouldn't have anything to eat on their plate" in the face of crop failures.

Activists of the "Last Generation" climate protection initiative glued their hands to the street at Stachus.

In front of them they hold a banner with the inscription "100 kmh and 9 € for everyone" © Matthias Balk / dpa

And how

The climate crisis is a global crisis.

Germany has historically high CO2 emissions and is therefore particularly responsible.

In addition, we are not the only ones taking to the streets in large industrialized nations.

There are now eleven groups around the world that, like us, are resisting their government's failures.

For example in England, the USA, Canada and France.

"Last generation about RAF comparisons and Habeck": 'I find that absurd'

Politicians call the "Last Generation" terrorists and make RAF comparisons.

Habeck said you were a radicalized minority.

I find that absurd.

It portrays us as representing a minority opinion.

In truth, we stand up to protect our constitution.

For the right to life, also for future generations.

This results from the basic rights of our constitution.

This is not a minority opinion, but the basis of our society.

The majority of the population wants climate protection.

However, majorities are obviously not enough, since it is not implemented.

The federal government, including Economics Minister Robert Habeck, has signed a gas deal with Qatar.

By 2040 at the latest, gas consumption should go down.

What do you make of it?

It is absurd that the federal government is making new fossil deals when there are more sustainable solutions.

That being said, we can no longer afford to fly private jets to Mallorca to party.

Society must limit itself because we are in a crisis.

Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks.

© Kay Nietfeld/dpa

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What energy source could the federal government have tapped into instead?

We must drive the expansion of renewable energies and recognize that green growth does not exist on a planet with finite resources.

The taz journalist Ulrike Herrmann, for example, proposes a survival economy.

This means that the economy would have to be rebuilt to meet needs.

Striving for more and more growth brings us to catastrophe.

But that would mean that we would have a massive economic slump.

We would have to adjust to the fact that our current level of prosperity would not be sustainable in the long term.

That's already certain.

Our current life will no longer exist in the next few decades.

Also our prosperity.

Now we have to think about how we can keep it as best as possible.

For example, through needs-based production.

Not everyone needs to own five toasters.

In the Global South, people are already barely able to grow food.

Floods are increasing.

In the long term, wars threaten to the point of human annihilation.