Climate “disservice” – WWF on Last Generation: “Wrong symbolism”

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The environmental protection organization WWF fears that society’s understanding of the last generation’s concerns about climate protection is diminishing, given the latest climate campaigns. “That is wrong symbolism,” WWF Germany Executive Director Christoph Heinrich said in view of the oil attack on the Constitutional Monument in Berlin. “This is where the climate protest is being done a disservice.”

Heinrich expressed his concern to the newspapers of the media group Bayern “that climate protection through such actions by the population can only be seen as a concern of extremists”.

“You can somehow still talk about slabs”, monuments taboo
Heinrich said of the clingy actions of the climate activists on the streets: “It’s provocative, it’s annoying, but that’s the way protest is.” You could “somehow still talk” about such forms. In addition, these types of campaigns were aimed at climate-relevant car traffic. Dirty monuments to the Basic Law, on the other hand, seem to “cast doubts on the Basic Law – and that shouldn’t be the message of the last generation”.

“We work differently”
The WWF board rejected criminally relevant actions. “We work differently, we look for solutions and we want to build bridges in society instead of excavating the gaps even deeper,” says Heinrich. You can’t always “take the provocation to the limit”.

Activists of the last generation poured black paint over the Basic Law monument on Saturday. They wanted to draw attention to what they consider to be an inadequate climate policy by the German government and advocated an earlier phase-out of fossil fuels such as oil. The protest sparked outrage between the parties.

Heilbronn takes action: prison for climate glue
Two members of the last generation who clung to the streets in Heilbronn in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in early February have been sentenced to prison terms, according to media reports. They were given two and three months respectively – with no probation, as both were already registered for similar crimes. The activists spoke of a “legal dam breach”.

New protests announced
The verdict has been made possible because the city of Heilbronn is participating in a model project to test faster processes. In addition to the prison sentences, fines of 60 daily rates each were imposed on two women and a man who were also involved in the roadblock, reports the “Münchner Merkur”. The Last Generation immediately announced new protests.

Source: Krone

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