Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt has defended climate activists from the “Last Generation” initiative against criticism. “I share their tenacity, but not all forms of protest,” she told the news portal “t-online”.
So she didn’t get much out of the attempt to disrupt the TV broadcast of a Christmas service. “I can well understand the church’s decision to broadcast the dress rehearsal,” said Göring-Eckardt: “As a Christian, I think the Christmas service can be a place that helps to strengthen resilience, especially against the climate crisis.”
The Greens politician welcomes the fact that the Evangelical Church invited climate activists to its synod in November. But the church can also do more to protect the climate. Göring-Eckardt proposes “solar systems on all church roofs” and wind turbines on church-owned areas. “The protection of monuments also has to take a back seat. We have just created the legal basis for this.”
They do not endanger human lives, as is sometimes claimed.
Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt
The Green politician does not consider the fundamental criticism of the “last generation” to be appropriate. “They don’t endanger human lives, as is sometimes claimed,” said the Bundestag Vice President: “The fact that CDU leader Friedrich Merz equates them with the ‘Reich citizens’ is absurd.”
Göring-Eckardt also finds the accusation that the roadblocks of the “last generation” are blocking ambulances wrong. The activists would do everything to ensure that rescue lanes could form. The debate is pointless in view of the many traffic jams caused by motorists. (epd)
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