These are the words of Wolfgang Schäuble in Conversation with climate activist Luisa Neubauer and Spiegel. A very exciting meeting. The essence is that we can largely feel left alone with the problem of the climate catastrophe by politics. The climate catastrophe overwhelms politics. The mills of politics grind slowly and all we can expect is to be drowned in government decision-making. Their main concern is to commit a formal error. It is not the matter of stopping global warming that counts, but that the official channels are followed. Even if we do global warming obsolete.
Wolfgang Schäuble in Conversation with climate activist Luisa Neubauer and Spiegel.
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Politicians like to point out contracts that must be adhered to. In particular, the treaties that damage the climate or destroy the world come on the table. There are fewer agreements such as those intended to curb pollution of the groundwater or the Paris Agreement, which sets climate protection targets. If the treaties that protect the climate are not kept it is "embarrassing". When the treaties that destroy the world are broken (strangely, it almost never happened) it is against the rule of law and "criminal".
In short ... it is unbelievable. It's so serious and we argue and argue as if we gave up long ago. Obviously, the climate catastrophe overwhelmed politics.
But there is also something positive about the situation.
Well. But you can also see the whole thing positively. Because thanks to the many discussions and all the freedom of expression, we still have a lot of freedom as Germans. Many other countries have much more authoritarian systems in which a great deal of personal freedom has been lost and the environmental situation there is in some cases even more serious than here.
We, on the other hand, can still decide absolutely freely what we do and how and what we buy from whom. And there is the starting point. We have a lot of power. We're just not using them properly.
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A world-contemptuous business model that makes the world poorer and poorer.
We are noticing that certain corporations have the business model of usurping all sales so that retail is dying, jobs are being lost and our inner cities are dying out. We realize that what happens there has dire consequences. But we keep buying from these certain big corporations. Funny actually. So with our money we support those who destroy our lives and make them poorer and poorer.
We actually know about the grievances, but it is still too difficult for many to change something.
It's the same with environmental protection. Everyone should by now be familiar with the conditions of factory farming and the consequences for the climate and the environment. And actually everyone should be aware that buying meat from these big slaughters seals the suffering of animals and brings the climate and environment to collapse. And yet you don't notice anything at the supermarket checkout. The money continues to flow in the direction of those who destroy our lives.
Or the deforestation of the rainforest. The rainforest is cleared for pasture or for the cultivation of palm oil. So the consumption of burgers made with the meat of these animals and of products that contain palm oil harms the rainforest. But both the burger and palm oil continues to be consumed uncritically.
There are infinitely many examples of this type of relationship. And to come back to the quote from the beginning. Yes we have exaggerated capitalism. And thoroughly. Everything is interwoven and well organized in order to get the maximum profit out of nature, animals and people. And because the whole system has to grow more and more, for years it was only about one thing: yield and profit. And the resulting climate catastrophe overwhelms politics.
Perhaps it may seem a bit dreamy to one or the other what we are doing hundsfutter do. Namely, to produce fair and handcrafted products that any normal entrepreneur in Asia would have children make. But the people who order our products and the people who make them are so happy with them that it can't be so wrong. There are already a lot of people to whom an ideal added value for a product means a lot. Luckily.
The offspring are trained to keep fueling turbo-capitalism - regardless of losses.
The system has produced tons of young business talents who outdo each other in accelerating, automating and making processes more profitable. It doesn't matter whether the consumer gets worse and worse goods and the world gets more and more harm.
All humanity fell by the wayside. And every compassion. All humility before life, all social skills, decency, morality and sense of responsibility seem to be lost. Somehow it seems like people are not realizing what is happening in the world and that it is very threatening. We no longer have time to look the other way or wait for politics.
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We have to help politicians now because they are not up to the situation with your means. Because later, when it is back on track, it will support our most important ally and us with your laws and resolutions.
We have to help politics. Because at the moment the climate catastrophe is overwhelming politics. Our system is not designed for this situation. The federal government is like a heavy giant tanker that cannot easily change course. It takes an infinite number of small tugs to maneuver it in the right direction. And that's us. Everyone who works for the climate, humanity, the environment and animals gives a positive impulse.
And when enough come together, the heavy ship moves and begins to move in a new, better direction. And it begins to support our impulse and produce resolutions and laws that will help us stop the madness. Even if the climate catastrophe is overwhelming at the moment, it will again become an important ally at our side in the future. Because we can only cope with this situation together.
Sustainable transformation is the new age after the digital era. Now it is a matter of repairing the enormous damage and failures of digitalization mania and taking a new, intelligent, human and sustainable path. There will have to be very radical changes, but in the end we will regain all the values that were left behind. What at first feels like renunciation soon turns out to be an enormous enrichment for the individual and for humanity in general.
It is simply terrible how obsessively the RWE and the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia (Armin Laschet) try to subvert the decisions to reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants. Here a report from the TAZ.
The chairman of the Greens, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, has in his Home Page said that he believes that we will achieve climate change in time. And then he emphasizes again in the postscript that he really believes in it. That moved me a lot, because it's so real and authentic. It is wonderful that he has such an important role in German politics and that he is already on our side.
Because we also believe that we can do it.
