German
Bundestag, September 16, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/175, pp. 21976-21977.
Right
honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Worthy
colleagues.
Sustainability,
that is one of the most abused terms of our time. Sustainability is a
conservative idea which in essence says: Act with full responsibility, think in
terms of generations, maintain the fundamentals of life and economy and plunder
not der Substanz. Thus, the
protection of environment and nature is a most profoundly conservative matter.
It
is thus yet more ominous that these matters have been pirated by green and
leftist eco-marxists and perverted into their opposite and the Union simply
joins in that. The consequence is a dialectical revaluation and contortion of
terms which drips from every line of this UN resolution. Sustainability must
now serve as a pretext for eco, climate and environmental socialism, for global
redistribution and for a planned economy on a worldwide scale. Your policy
systematically plunders the bases of our welfare, of our cultural identity and
of our very existence.
Sin
number one: Climate defense and energy transformation. You squander billions
and billions of euros on the illusion that Germany could influence the climate
by demolishing its industrial core. The result is a gigantic waste and
mis-allocation of resources and the crippling of productive economic power which
will be wanting for future challenges. You disfigure our forests and fields
with windmills which kill innumerable birds of prey and insects
Marianne Schieder (SPD): Gott, oh Gott!
Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): It’s getting good!
and
yet you know not from where in the future shall come more secure and more
affordable electricity for households and businesses, and are quite silent as
to the enormous additional requirement for E-mobility.
Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): Better
windmills than nuclear reactors!
You
ruin our auto industry, the backbone of our national economy, with absurd EU
limitations on combustion engine vehicles and the planned economy promotion of
non-competitive electric autos. Over 50,000 additional jobs are on the verge in
the automobile branch: At Schaeffler, Daimler, MAN and other firms. The
unemployment of hundreds of thousands will follow and for that Corona is not
guilty.
The
second, great ordnungspolitische case
of sin: The euro rescue and the handling of the Corona crisis. Mountains of
debt, bail-out packages and record taxes are the exact opposite of sustainability.
It is the billions of euros which you give away at the stroke of a pen that are
however lacking in this country.The monetary socialism of the ECB portends the
impoverishment of the Mittelstand and
the middle class by inflation and financial repression, creeping statism and
the annihilation of independent livelihoods.
And
you learn nothing from your failures. You mis-use the pictures from Moria to
force a second 2015 on our own citizens. The costs of what is in fact unlimited
migration rupture the social system and destroy the basis of our economic and
social welfare. The accompanying loss of freedom of opinion and security
undermine the fundamentals of the democratic Republic. A hyper-moral migration
policy, which leverages right and law and ignores the facts and limits of
carrying capacity, divides society and it divides Europe.
He who without limit imports the poverty of this world does not help the poor but impoverishes himself and in the end can no longer help anyone. Only a country which knows and advocates its own interests and which preserves and increases its welfare can determine its place in the world and attend to a responsibility for others. You however do the exact opposite and that is certainly not sustainable.
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