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Harald Martenstein : I, the Klimasau

last November, I flew, just for fun, in the United States. I eat meat and pineapple, the latter is coming here, probably by far. I drive even an SUV, because th

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Harald Martenstein : I, the Klimasau

last November, I flew, just for fun, in the United States. I eat meat and pineapple, the latter is coming here, probably by far. I drive even an SUV, because the roads in the Uckermark are often bad ... Oh, what, that makes way with the excuses, it's fun for me. I'm a pork kind of a Climate. Germany, I thought last summer, is part of the climate change to the winners. This should be every summer. Agriculture can adapt to new products. The automotive industry needs to change. Olives from Werder, why not?

This is, of course, thought too short. The crises triggered by climate change in other parts of the world, drought, Floods, or storms, you will not leave our country untouched. The pressure of Migration, for example, will continue to rise. It may be that Greenland exported in 30 years of Riesling, but a replacement for the desertification can not be parts of Africa, Greenland. And the big moral questions of our responsibility for the others, I have not cut it yet.

That climate change is a reality, the best riding is only sectarian. Part of it is sure to be a result of industrialisation, which has, of course, also brought a lot of Good, especially the highest standard of living that existed in the world ever. Where people are starving even today, Hunger is the result of policy mistakes and criminal governments. According to the historian Noah Yuval Harari writes in his global bestseller "A brief history of mankind". There are more and more people, because we are thanks to science and medicine is older and only a few children die early.

If climate change has other causes, which we can't change anything, I don't know. Some of the scientists represented in this Thesis. And, that's right, climate change has always existed. This is a reason to do nothing? I think, no.

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However, what we do in Germany, or is, in the course of climate change almost irrelevant. The CO-2 emissions in our small country plays globally much of a role, compared with China or the United States. That would be a reason not to do the Right thing? You would not let a Drowning man drown, because his death does not change the total number of the Drowned so much? Hopefully not.

How we behave in everyday life, playing for our CO 2 balance is, unfortunately, a very small role. Maybe you go vegan and ride the bike to work. This is healthy, but your personal carbon footprint you are proud to have you ruined, unfortunately, with your eco-holidays in Costa Rica completely. Because of the flights. The hit correctly. If you were the one driving instead of the train to Sylt, a Rolls Royce available to rent, and daily champagne had been drinking, they would have been a less bad environment pig.

for a number Of reasons, it would still not be a good idea to ban long-distance flights, or to make it priceless. First of all, we would promote some of the countries are dependent on tourism, in the Ruin. Secondly, exotic travel would be a privilege for a few Rich. Thirdly, the encounter promotes with other cultures, openness to the world, and we want, is it? And our economy would come without the plane, in serious difficulties, by the way, even without the car. To destroy the foundations of our relative prosperity, is generally not a particularly clever concept. I need to justify this really?

I don't trust the effect of moral appeals, and international conferences. People change their behavior, if at all, only slowly and under pressure. Who exerts too much pressure, is no longer selected. That all States agreed on energetic steps to climate protection and execute, I can imagine difficult. The interests are too different. A country that only gradually comes and goes as prosperity, has probably a more intimate relationship than one that keeps him for granted.

Who can solve, if at all, the climate crisis? The science, research, and market Economics rather than moral appeals. Why? Because almost all progress of the last centuries was a child of science and the market economy. Of course, the welfare state is not conceivable without the social democracy and the idea of human rights is not without the enlightenment. The welfare state was only possible because capitalism has created tremendous wealth. Our life is long, because the medicine makes it possible. We do not have to starve, because the productive power of agriculture is grown. The air is better, because filters have been developed. The contribution of science and research for better life is significantly greater than the contribution of ideologies of all kinds.

The invention of an almost or completely emission-free aircraft would contribute to climate protection, more than thousands of years of separation of Waste. The low-emission car will come, it will be cheaper, so, how television and computers have become cheaper. Our devices consume less power, also in China, and the environmentally-friendly electricity generation, the ugly windmills are not sure of the last word. We Germans should not have to apply every year to the world Cup in the Emission of moral appeals, we should do more for science and research. Since we were time top.

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Thus, should I want to, nothing against those who say that the measure of the daily CO-2 footprint. That's okay, but a solution it is not. To forbid people from traveling or make it difficult, is also not a solution. We have managed to fly to the moon and to defeat the plague, we also provide the victory over the carbon dioxide, in the same way.

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