By Sebastian Geisler
How arrogant is that?
The “Last Generation” was prominently featured in the “Tagesthemen” (ARD) on Thursday evening. When asked about her criminal blockade actions at German airports, Lina Johnsen, spokeswoman for the climate chaos, shows no insight, obviously feels FULL in the right.
► When asked by presenter Caren Miosga (54) whether it was really that easy to get onto the runway, Johnsen says with a hint of a smile that she doesn’t know whether it was “really that easy”.
“You shouldn’t normally do that easily. But it worked in the end, as we have seen. The people came onto the runway.”
Johnsen is obviously proud of the fact that the “last generation” has spoiled the start of many travelers’ vacations and also endangered their safety.
When Miosga pointed out that it was “a criminal act”, Johnsen said: “Criminal is first of all an assessment. In the end, it’s up to the courts to decide. And we don’t have a court order yet.”
The fact is: What the “last generation” did is DEFINITELY a criminal offence. In Germany, laws do not only come into force through court decisions.
► But climate chaotic Johnsen talks his way out of it, saying that the Federal Constitutional Court has “a court order”: The federal government is breaking its climate protection goals. “Especially in the transport sector” is the case.
Johnsen continued in the “daily topics”: “A climate protection program is to be presented on Monday and Volker Wissing refuses.” They want to take action against the actions of the Federal Minister of Transport. “Because: in the end, our survival depends on us meeting our climate protection goals.”
Does this view give her the right to ruin people’s vacations?
Johnsen: “I’m incredibly sorry. I wish everyone, all families, a well-deserved vacation. At the same time, we have to look at what kind of catastrophe we are heading for. And the government doesn’t take it seriously.”
“Great injustice what is happening here right now”
It is “a great injustice what is happening here,” says Johnsen. By that she doesn’t mean her illegal actions – but the climate policy of the federal government. But, claims Johnsen, they are “leaving the ground of the constitution”.
Johnsen plaintively: “Of course people are now being punished for drawing attention to it and not being able to look away.”
► Miosga follows up, albeit quite softly: “If the goal is undisputed: your method remains questionable. In our most recent survey by Infratest Dimap, 85 percent of Germans now reject your form of protest. And: Although ticket prices are rising, Germans are flying as much as before the pandemic: Well, you haven’t achieved anything there.”
“The protest is super annoying”
Johnsen: “I think people can make a clear distinction: the protest is super disruptive, super annoying, I also find it totally stupid.”
At this point, the activist laughs arrogantly, adding: “I don’t want to do that either.”
The “last generation” finds their own protest “super annoying” and “totally stupid”, but apparently cannot do otherwise.
Johnsen continues: “We all agree on the core. We all know what we have to do. But it is not done. It is always transferred to the individual ‘Stop flying! Go vegan!’ People are doing it, and yet the emissions are increasing over and over again.” “Nothing is being done”.
However, that is not true.
Background: In 2020, a total of 728.7 million tons of CO2 were emitted in Germany. Around 71 million tons or 8.9 percent less than in 2019 and 41.3 percent less than in 1990, as reported by the Federal Environment Agency. The emissions have actually decreased SIGNIFICANTLY!
“Peaceful civil resistance is simply the means of choice”
Miosga points out that even “Fridays for Future” believes that the “last generation” is pissing people off, turning them against climate protection activism.
► Johnsen arrogant: “Our role as protesters is not to create majorities for climate protection, which are already there anyway. It fails because of solutions, not because of majorities in the population.”
She went on to say: “Peaceful civil resistance is the method of choice if you don’t know what to do other than putting your own body in the way and disrupting our everyday life, which will ultimately lead us over this cliff.”
The majority of Germans obviously see it differently.