The federal government, which consists of three parties, passes a law that one party thinks is “unworkable”. So for unfit. Therefore, the FDP added a protocol note in the hope that Parliament, the actual legislature, will turn this impractical law into a practicable law. So the Bundestag has a lot of work to do.
I’ve been in this political business for 40 years now, and I asked myself: Has something like this ever happened in German parliamentary history? Anyway, I can’t remember. But maybe that’s just me.
What actually happened there, so purely methodological? The climate stickers from the supposedly “last generation” have announced that they will shut down Berlin and start shutting down in the government district. Early this morning, when the sun began to shine over Berlin and a cold easterly wind blew in from the direction of Ukraine, I still couldn’t find any climate adhesive at work.
Robert Habeck carried the green method of ecological coercion from the cobblestone beach to the Federal Cabinet
That is likely to change. And it’s at least duress, infringement of property rights and who knows what else. But in terms of the brutal method, which comes across as quasi-religious – yesterday the climate people were in a church – it’s little different than what Robert Habeck is doing right now.
The Federal Economics Minister from the Greens has carried the green method of eco-compulsion from the cobblestone beach to the Federal Cabinet. This is probably what was meant by the march through the institutions.
Well-meaning people will judge that this is at least innovative. With regard to the offense of coercion, one must perhaps refer to the difference between “legal” and “legitimate”. What Habeck is doing there will be legal, lawyers are said to be employed in his house, but not quite legitimate. What is played down as “regulatory law” is in any case a coercion. In any case, I didn’t call for an air-conditioning rent increase.
German climate change, one of the largest experiments on the people that a country has ever entered
Their justification is interesting. It reads: climate emergency. We have to do something, otherwise it will be too late. Now, however, by far the largest CO2 emitters in the world are of the opinion that they also have to do something. The Chinese are planning and building more than 200 new coal-fired power plants because otherwise it will be too late. Not for the climate, however, but for the growth on which the prospects for the growing Chinese middle class depend to create prosperity. On which in turn depends China’s stability and thus that of its only ruling party, the CP.
Even in the “Spiegel” they wrote that Germany alone would not be able to save the world’s climate, one could almost have forgotten it in view of the heated debates. The climate change here, one of the greatest experiments on the people that a country has ever undertaken, is about the desire to gain “bargaining power”, writes the colleague, who is valued – also because of his wonderful novels. With this bargaining power, you have to understand it this way: Other countries will only imitate the great German energy transition if they also think it is great.
By the way, you can use it to forget a speed limit on German autobahns. Because such a limitation would not be exemplary for the rest of the world. The rest of the world already knows that. Germany is the only large country that knows how to freely develop at the wheel.
Not a single country in the world will follow the Habeck Law
Perhaps what I’m writing now is unfair, but I don’t think there is a single country in the world that will follow the Habeck Act and beat up its citizens with a heating hammer like the minister is now doing. With the silent complicity of the Chancellor, provided by the Social Democrats, and under the protest of Christian Lindner of the Liberals.
A moment ago, in front of the Reichstag, about where the first 19 articles of the Basic Law are engraved on man-high glass walls, a Dutch reporter asked me how I felt about this Habeck law gave because of the pension or in the Netherlands.
Not wanting to be rude, I stopped in front of her microphone. The Germans are not revolutionaries, unlike the French, I replied. Maybe that was a bit politically incorrect, after all there are just as few “the” Germans as there are “the” science that one should follow when it comes to climate issues.
The astonishment of a reporter why it can still remain so quiet in the country
However, there is a core of truth in the question asked by the colleague from our neighboring country: the astonishment that the country can remain so calm in the face of such a law, which so radically questions the way the population is used to dealing with house and yard and apartment. Maybe because the 79-year-olds don’t like to take to the streets with banners and megaphones anymore. Perhaps this is an explanation for the current peace in the cemetery.
If you’re 80, you don’t have to go out at all because of the new mandatory heating, you can keep the dirty old one until – well. I find this regulation particularly insidious, or, to use Olaf Scholz’s favorite word: disrespectful.
We still call something like the Greens: positive discrimination. This means that whoever is old has an advantage over the young. It’s not all wrong what they think.
