German Bundestag, July 6, 2023, Plenarprotokoll 20/115, pp. 14205-14206.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
The draft law put forward deals primarily with the acceleration of the approval procedures for windpower installations and facilities for production of so-called green hydrogen. So as to forestall the same: The speeches on green hydrogen, this alleged wonder technology of the future, which in reality is a stillbirth, is an additional green chimera. Yet this is marginal.
How shall permitting procedures now be thus accelerated? The answer reads: a) While almost all possibilities of protest and influence are taken from the public, b) while the States’ power of decision is undermined, c) while examinations of environmental compatibility are simply abolished, d) so that in the future protection of species and agriculture no more play a role. But anyway – the main thing is, Germany saves the world climate!
How absurd this supposition in fact is, the following figures show: Germany, which has a two percent portion of worldwide CO2 emissions, has since 1990 cut back some one-third of its emissions. The rest of the world, which is responsible for 98 percent of CO2 output, has in the same time increased its CO2 emissions by two-thirds. In other words: What we in Germany do or allow is absolutely irrelevant for the world climate.
Marianne Schieder (SPD): That is an
absurd theory!
The ideologically motivated and artificially generated climate hysteria thus alone serves as a justification for the planned radical change in our society, the radical change into an authoritarian socialist planned economy
Marianne Schieder (SPD): Uijuijui!
Jan Niclas Gesenhues (Greens): Conspiracy theory! Again a false turn on the internet, or what?
in which the state prescribes to the people how they are to live, how they are to eat, with what they are to heat. It serves as a justification for the rainbow coalition’s war against our industry, against the automobile, against our private property, a war which meanwhile has become a war of those who govern against one’s own people.
Marianne Schieder (SPD): That is the
wrong word!
And I say to you: The people there outside, they know this and they are fed up with it.
Axel Echeverria (SPD): Yes, with
you!
Since the only sustainability goal which you are in a position to attain is to drive this country straight into the wall and to annihilate our sustained prosperity. Thus Professor Dr. Knut Löschke,
Carsten Träger (SPD): How is he
called?
member of the college council of the University of Leipzig and member of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute, speaks to the citizens from the deepest soul
Petra Sitte (Linke): He is for long
no more a member. I have taken care of that!
when he says – I cite with permission of the President:
I have enough of it…I have a nose full of permanent and ever more religious climate talk, of energy transition fantasies, of electro-auto worship, through horror stories of world downfall scenarios…to world catastrophes.
I can no more bear the people who daily scream this in microphones and cameras or publish it in newspapers. I suffer first-hand how natural science is made a whore of politics.
Marianne Schieder (SPD): Eijeijei!
Ladies and gentlemen of the CDU/CSU, I can thus give to you just the good advice: Send the firewall fetishists and BlackRock orders-takers as quickly as possible into the wasteland. Become again a party which is ready, in common with the AfD, to turn things upside down
Daniel Rinkert (SPD): Do you then want to change the
Federal Emissions Protection Law? What are your proposals? Of that, nothing is
heard!
and to make reason-oriented policy for Germany. If you do not do that, you will, quicker than you suppose, dwindle into meaninglessness.
Thank you.
[trans: tem]
