You can not suppress the environmental protests
The mainstream parties have been caught off guard by the protests. The mainstream media's control of opinion and the entertainment industry's distraction strategy have failed. The most advanced among the young people formulated the latent discomfort and, with the help of so-called social media, were able to spread the protest mood across the entire western world. So far, the deniers of climate change have only been located among the American Republicans and the far right of the AfD, the surprised reaction among the established parties reveals that the issue of climate change is extremely unpleasant for the political class. It tries to push this issue, the littering of the seas and the poisoning of the air to the edge and, if possible, leave it to the EU. And according to the motto “stop the thief” reference is made to China and India.
As if the well-being and woe of the population depended on the return of energy companies. Anyone who has heard the energy of the protests against the deforestation of the Hambach forest will not underestimate the sustainability of the protests.
It was just stupid how the FDP leader at the party congress dismissed the protests with the arrogant remark that the students should leave climate protection to the experts. And with the slogan that the FDP has many ideas, but nothing should change and everything is to remain so, they also moved into the European election campaign. And they threaten the poorer people that they need to buy new cars if they are serious about climate change. For the time being, however, they do not want to go that far yet. This is the neo-liberal line that has already failed Westerwelle and also the deeper reason why the coalition negotiations on forming a government for the FDP have failed. With the financial and economic crisis 2009, neo-liberalism has passed its peak and is increasingly viewed critically
The CDU did not do much better in responding to the student protests and wanted to denigrate them as truants. That made the party look pretty helpless. Your time as a governing party would probably have ended long ago, if the competitors would not persist at a similar low level. If the party has nothing more to offer than toilet jokes and shabby hedge fund managers, there will probably be a long hewing and stinging at the next formation of the government.
Ms. Nahles has cleverly shattered her veteran officials to silence the protests, so that the SPD came out fairly undamaged. As a distraction, she allowed the chairman of the Juso association to be expressed, which made Habeck a great success. The media vortex diverted well from the urgent problems and Scholz declared in a hurry that everything was not meant so seriously. But the potential SPD voters already knew that.
And the Greens said that their time has come now: finally, as a reward for marginalizing all leftists in their party, they receive the prospect of government participation. And certainly a pledge will jump out on aluminum cans. And when it comes to nothing with the reduction of nitric oxide and fine dust in the inner cities, one can still point with the finger on the technocrats in Brussels. And if a coal-fired power plant is shut down, the group will be behind billions.
The species of lobbyists that existed in the Bonn Republic, is no longer necessary and is probably extinct in Berlin. The Minister of Transport sees himself as the top employee of the auto companies. If he performs his duties satisfactorily, he will, like his predecessors, be directly taken on with a salary that is many times his current one. And the Ministry of Agriculture is in the hands of the agro and meat companies, they write even the legal texts, without the need of lobbyists. The Ministry of Economic Affairs has a direct connection to the energy companies and the banks. That was already common practice under Gerhard Schröder and his ministers. The industrialists are still excited today when they think of the beginning of their golden age with low pay and temporary work.
It will only be difficult if banks (finance capital) and energy companies (industrial capital) want to enforce differing interests.
And the foreign minister sees himself as the highest commercial representative of the national industrial conglomerates. He and the Ministry of Defense must promote the interests of the defense industry. Scharping still surrounded himself openly with lobbyists and had to go for it.
The whole thing is called democracy.
A few notes:
1. Those who demonstrate on Fridays must also start with themselves.
So run to school or take the school bus and not be driven by mom's SUV to school and also picked up again.
Also check out the parking lots near our school center: hundreds of students' cars.
Also waive the new phone, etc.
The mere accusations against the older generation are threadbare!
2. A Co2 tax reminds me of the indulgence trade.
He just generated new revenue and did not solve the problem.
3. One problem is, among other things, the uncontrolled growth of the earth's population.
More consumers logically means growing CO2 emissions.
4. Comparisons with France or even Switzerland with regard to the CO2 balance (FRA = approx. 50% compared to DEU per inhabitant) are not credible, as these countries draw a large part of their energy from nuclear power.
5. Switzerland, too, with its CO2 tax, has many an absurdity. After all, it's not just about CO2's own production.
One must also take into account that Switzerland imports many goods,
which are CO2 loaded in the producer country Germany. These data would have to
so be assigned to the consumer of Switzerland.
6. The whole problem can only be solved globally.
National measures can calm the conscience
but not a single problem. The share of Germany in the CO emissions of
World is below 2%; the Switzerland even only in the per thousand range! If DEU is reduced, it will hardly affect global. Only the conscience is calmed down a bit!
7. Don't always portray the energy companies as the “culprit”. These are not the social welfare office but companies that have to make a profit.
Even the average citizen who saves for his private pension, may have shares of such companies and therefore expects a return. And that is permissible and even necessary.
8. Hambacher Forst? Let's be honest: The protest has long slipped the organizers. Those who have built tree houses there (by the way also with felled trees !!!), are in my eyes just left-handers who want to challenge our state and criminals.
These were just a few comments.
There is much more to say.