According to Greta Thunberg and Greenpeace, the current flood disaster in Germany is a consequence of the climate crisis. The climate activist sees this as an indication of the increase in extreme weather events.
Stockholm – Climate activist Greta Thunberg sees the flood disaster in parts of Germany as an indication of the increase in extreme weather events.
The young Swede shares various photos and videos on Twitter, showing impressions of flooded streets and cities in Germany and the Netherlands.
In view of the increasing number of natural disasters, the 18-year-old wrote in the morning: “Deadly heat waves, floods, storms, forest fires, droughts, crop failures … this is not” the new normal “. We are at the very beginning of a climatic and ecological emergency, and extreme weather events will only become more frequent. “
The leading German climate activist Luisa Neubauer also spoke on Twitter. She criticized that these events were not linked to the climate crisis. “You can talk about the flood without going into the clear connections between these extremes and the climate crisis. You then just capitalize on climate impacts in order to normalize a policy that science ignores & produces more and more climate crises, ”she wrote.
The environmental protection organization Greenpeace has also described the “current extreme weather” such as heavy rain, floods and floods as consequences of the climate crisis. “And that’s just the beginning,” said climate expert Karsten Smid on Thursday to the German Press Agency in Berlin. “With global warming, temperatures are rising to new record levels all over the world.” The atmosphere is heating up and discharging in the form of storms.
With regard to the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), he said: “What it means for the people that the Merkel government has always placed climate protection and climate adaptation behind short-term economic interests is felt most painfully by the population in large parts of Germany Weise. “The black-red government never provided sufficient solutions for climate protection. dpa
