Bavarian Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 18/82, pp.
10901-10902.
Right honorable Presidium. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
The Federal Constitutional Court has stated in a decision that
the Federal government’s Climate Protection Law may be insufficient. The judges
come to the conclusion that, in the future, serious forfeitures of freedom for
the protection of the climate could be proportionately and constitutionally
justified. At this point, I must quite clearly say: These forfeitures of
freedom, not more clearly defined, can become dangerous licenses for the
intentions of an over-reaching government. Any criticism of the climate
ideology could in the future be considered to be unconstitutional.
The critics of such a climate society negligent of
prosperity could be observed by the Constitution Defense or criminally
prosecuted. The criminalization of business activity and individual mobility
could in the future be on the daily order. Briefly stated: Under the pretense
of climate protection, basic rights and rights of ownership could be restricted
or abolished.
The door would be opened to eco-socialist fantasies of
redistribution and expropriation. One could even be of the opinion that, as to
the so-called climate protection, it is precisely about that. The CO2 tax
is a devastating example of that, as the citizens will be ripped off under the pretense
of climate protection. The increased price of individual transportation, of
construction and of consumer goods is attended by a great social injustice. The
alleged climate protection primarily means a renunciation of the quality of
life for broad classes of the population. It must be clear to the citizens
where the eco-dictatorship leads. Wide portions of industry and the Mittelstand will be ruined, since the CO2
tax for the so-called carbon leakage will thereby lead to losses of value
creation in Bavaria.
The BDI [Federation
of German Industry] warns of eco-socialist ideologies: The multiplicity of
prohibitions, quotas and technology standards are the foundation stones of
another social order in which the life of the people and the economy will be
burdened with ever more costs and our prosperity permanently destroyed. Will we
soon see a climate levy on private assets, a ban on single family housing to
protect the climate, or, of which we especially warn, a climate lockdown as has
been demanded by confused climate youths? The climate hysteria may in no case
be a reason for restrictions of freedom, or certainly a lockdown.
The Constitutional judges based their decision on the international
climate researches and warnings of the so-called world climate council, the
IPCC. For many reasons, this appears questionable. First, the IPCC is not
democratically legitimated. Second, the IPCC has many times in the past attracted attention as a result of false
forecasts. Third, the IPCC is not a neutral, scientific body but a political
one. It thereby has to do with the hardened financial interests of lobby
groups. Ja, it has to do with quite a
lot of money. The so-called climate protection is a money-making machine for
pseudo-green interests and an insatiable state.
We of the AfD will not stand idly by as the citizens
continue to be deprived of their rights and ripped off. The destructive Corona
policy has already shown that the government does not really take seriously the
defense of the basic rights. We of the AfD must prevent that the violation of
basic rights be repeated with the climate protection. Basic rights are not privileges
but non-negotiable foundations of a functioning democracy. The guarantee of the
basic rights and rights of freedom must be secured, even in regards the climate
protection efforts.
We request a vote in favor for our motion [Drucksache 18/15544].
[trans: tem]
