{"id":291113,"date":"2023-12-13T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291113"},"modified":"2023-12-13T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:05:11","slug":"former-federal-german-minister-under-merkel-warns-germany-heading-to-a-climate-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291113","title":{"rendered":"Former Federal German Minister Under Merkel Warns: Germany Heading To A Climate Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By P Gosselin<\/a> on 12. December 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBasic rights in crisis mode\u201d in Germany. The real threat to democracy.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow we live, heat, get around, travel and what we eat could soon no longer be an individual decision, but increasingly be dictated by the state,\u201d a former German federal minister warns.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Image cropped from\u00a0Kristina Schr\u00f6der\u2019s Twitter account<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kristina Schr\u00f6der<\/strong>, photo above, who served as the Federal Family Minister from 2009 to 2013 in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, recently commented that Germany currently finds itself on a dangerous environmentally dogmatic path under the current leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pandemic as the blueprint<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a commentary published at Der Pragmaticus here<\/a>, she writes: \u201cThe pandemic has provided a blueprint for the climate movement on how to enforce fundamental restrictions on basic rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGermany is heading in the direction of a radical climate protection dogma that almost completely ignores the costs of the path taken. And once again, the two predominant patterns of argumentation in the pandemic can be observed: A refusal to weigh things up and an ends-justify-the-means mindset,\u201d Schr\u00f6der adds. \u201cI am convinced that large sections of the climate protection movement are also fighting our way of living and our economy at least as much as they are fighting climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CO2 as the virus to fear<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schr\u00f6der adds that it is easy to see that CO2 is being viewed as a virus and to imagine future measures to curb it: \u201cthere is a threat of regulations affecting our most private lifestyles. How we live, heat, get around, travel and what we eat could soon no longer be an individual decision, but increasingly be dictated by the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schellnhuber \u201c3 tonnes per year\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also speaks critically of Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the former director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) who proposes \u201cevery citizen could be given a CO2 budget of three tons per year.\u201d The average German emits 11 tons per year, and thus getting down to just 3 would certainly entail draconian restrictions and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But so far many Germans have been acting complacently about such drastic proposals, Schr\u00f6der notes, adding: \u201cThis eager willingness to relinquish fundamental freedoms is all the more disturbing as a crucial question is hardly being asked, let alone answered: Does effective climate protection really have to mean such losses of freedom and prosperity?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schr\u00f6der, who contributes regularly to Welt<\/a>, also wonders why in Germany there\u2019s  such a \u201cblindness to the costs\u201d of reducing CO2.  \u201cWhy this indifference to the loss of freedom and prosperity?\u201d And: \u201cWhy this longing for bans, renunciation and penance?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPowerful lever\u201d against capitalism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Schr\u00f6der\u2019s view, for the activists, climate protection is \u201ca powerful lever to push back the hated capitalist system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She concludes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am certain that if a technical solution were to be found tomorrow that would allow us to render CO2 harmless overall, large sections of the radical climate protection movement would not be relieved, but disappointed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foe the greens and the many activists, it\u2019s follow our politics!<\/em> It\u2019s not about science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Kristina Schr\u00f6der\u2019s full commentary here<\/a> (German). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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