Posted on 02/18/2025 6:36:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When the coalition government emerged after the last German federal election in the fall of 2021, then-incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) did not object to being called the "climate chancellor." That was no surprise: the climate crisis had been a top issue during the election campaign.
Three and a half years later, campaign speeches barely mention climate protection. The dominant issues are how to curb irregular immigration and how to boost Germany's sluggish economy.
Recently, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) was appalled when Chancellor Scholz expressed approval of importing oil and liquefied gas from the US in an interview with the German business newspaper Handelsblatt Scholz, arguing that increasing imports would lower energy prices.
However, Heike Vesper, one of the managing directors of WWF Germany, said, "More oil and gas on the world market would only mean one thing: fueling the climate crisis. The consequences would be damage costing billions — and an unstable economy."
Climate protection remains one of the Greens' central concerns.
"I find it negligent that the other parties are now arguing against climate protection," Environment Minister Steffi Lemke of the Greens told DW. "We know that we need climate protection and adaptation to climate change."
"Whenever the next extreme weather event occurs — the next flood in Bavaria, for example — then we will again realize that it is all happening very close to home," Lisa Badum, a climate expert for the Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, pointed out.
"When we look at the international stage and see that Donald Trump has withdrawn from the UN climate agreement — it is ever more important that Europe moves forward," she said. "And that won't happen without Germany."
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>> Three and a half years later, campaign speeches barely mention climate protection. The dominant issues are how to curb irregular immigration and how to boost Germany’s sluggish economy.
“Although you are not be interested in reality... reality is always interested in you...”
This is why German police run around arresting citizens for social media posts. The German political class would like the election to be about Climate Change but the citizens want it to be about out of control immigration and the deindustrialization of the country and the massive attendant loss of wealth. So what’s a government to do? Start arresting citizens for social media posts calling the vice-chancellor an “idiot.”
Climate and environment are nothing but a money eating scam
The voters know who the Climate and environment scammers are so make the wear the Green Star so everyone knows ,LOL
It will be interesting to see how the Green Party does in the next election. They were the ones who instigated the ill-fated “Energiewende” of Angela Merkel. Their economy has suffered greatly ever since, with the highest energy costs in Europe.
Good, but when JD Vance encouraged free speech in Munich the other day, only about 1 in 10 members of the audience clapped.
And then CBS gloated about going on a police raid to arrest someone for posting a cartoon on the internet.
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