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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg has criticized the Greens for their Lützerath policy. Corporations like RWE should be held accountable.
Greta Thunberg has criticized Germany’s Greens for supporting the demolition of Lützerath and digging up the coal lying beneath the village. Corporations like RWE should actually be held accountable for how they treat people. “The fact that the Greens make compromises with such companies shows where their priorities lie,” said the Swedish climate activist on Saturday in an interview with the German Press Agency in Erkelenz. She herself was never associated with a green party.
Leading Green politicians such as Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck and his NRW colleague Mona Neubaur defend the demolition of Lützerath by saying that the coal underneath is needed to maintain energy security in the current crisis. Thunberg said: “The coal that’s in the ground here isn’t going to bring prices down immediately. Anyone who thinks that way simply has no connection to reality.”
Thunberg came to Germany to support protests
The 20-year-old came to Germany to support the protest against the eviction and demolition of Lützerath. “I’ve been here before and it was completely different then,” she said. “It’s very sad to see that. It’s a completely different place now.” Regarding the crater landscape of the Rhenish lignite mining area, she said: “It really looks like Mordor. It shows what people are capable of under the wrong conditions. It shows what we are fighting against, what we are trying to prevent.” In Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings, Mordor is the realm and the base of the evil Sauron.
Thunberg had already visited Lützerath on Friday and denounced “police violence”. Aachen police chief Dirk Weinspach had vehemently rejected the criticism. On the contrary, the police acted with extreme caution, he said. When asked if she maintained her criticism of the police, Thunberg told dpa: “Police violence means different things in different countries. But there were several cases in which the police endangered the lives of activists. “(dpa)
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