Activists have been starving themselves for weeks in order to force the Chancellor to make a government statement on the dramatic nature of climate change. Scholz does not respond to this – but appeals again to the participants.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has once again appealed to the participants of the climate hunger strike in Berlin to call off their action. That is his wish, said the SPD politician at a public discussion organized by the “Thüringer Allgemeine”. Scholz did not respond to the activists’ demands.
Several activists from the “Starve until you’re honest” campaign have been on hunger strike in Berlin for weeks, some of them in serious health conditions. They are demanding a government statement from Scholz. In it, the Chancellor is expected to say, among other things, that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is already too high and that there is no CO2 budget left.
During the public discussion in Erfurt, a citizen asked Scholz specifically whether he considered this statement to be fact or opinion. With a statement, he could possibly end the hunger strike. However, Scholz did not answer directly. He merely confirmed that it had been scientifically proven that there was man-made climate change. It was the aim of his government to stop this climate change. In doing so, it kept its eye on the goal of stopping global warming at 1.5 degrees if possible.
But science does not produce an automatic result. “What we want politically must be discussed in a democracy,” said Scholz. Decisions cannot be forced by saying that we are no longer eating. Nor can they be left to the courts. “We have to win majorities among citizens for what we think is right. That does not come from outside.”
Source: Stern
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