"They just make terror" - Reinhold Messner rejects street blockades by climate activists

The extreme mountaineer and author Reinhold Messner (78) rejects the blocking of roads by sticking activists as a means of climate protest. "It creates opposite emotions in people," said Messner of the German Press Agency. The founder of the museum and former MEP is thus in line with the Schleswig-Holstein polar researcher and author Arved Fuchs, who had already criticized such actions in January. In 1989/90, both of them were the first people to cross Antarctica on foot.

According to Messner, people don't believe that people who are stuck on the streets want to enlighten. "People know that they simply make terror." Anyone who is blocked on the street and misses appointments because of such climate stickers does not say that it is necessary to change something. "Then I say, please leave me alone with your forms of protest."

From Messner's point of view, something else is needed: "We have to get to the people with science and stories in order to get them to the point where they help to slow down and stop global warming.

Fuchs had told the dpa that he didn't think it was good for works of art to be smeared. "I don't like being stuck either. "But I can understand the anger of young people." They have the feeling that they are not being listened to, said the 69-year-old. Messner and Fuchs have been committed to protecting the environment and climate in lectures and books for decades.

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