The summer of 2022 will also drastically show the consequences of climate change in Germany. Now 30 celebrities of very different persuasions are calling for stricter measures in the fight against global warming. After all, many a person would “love to have something banned by Robert Habeck”.
In the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”, 30 celebrities and leaders call on the government to do more to protect the climate. Sometimes they also call for more bans.
“I would very much like to have something banned by Robert Habeck,” commented moderator Barbara Schöneberger in the direction of the federal government and climate protection minister. “I think we need strict bans because everyone can do almost everything differently if the others have to do it too.”
Ballermann star Ikke Hipgold, who in his own words used to be “an environmental pig”, says: “I think cheap flights have to be abolished, even if that hurts me. It can’t be that you go to Mallorca or Bulgaria for a day flies. A few years ago, I took the car myself for a 500-meter trip. But my two daughters transformed me.”
The celebrities in the “Zeit” also include DGB boss Yasmin Fahimi, SPD politician Gesine Schwan, influencer Aminata Belli, bestselling author Frank Schätzing, inclusion activist Raul Krauthausen, “Tagesschau” weather expert Sven Plöger, the chairwoman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Annette Kurschus, and the Chairman of the Siemens Energy Supervisory Board, Joe Kaeser.
ZDF presenter Markus Lanz is shocked at how quickly the glaciers are melting in his native South Tyrol. “The speed scares even climate researchers,” says the talk show host. “And where the ice is gone, the permafrost thaws. Whole slopes and half valleys start to move.”
The virologist Hendrik Streeck, who became a TV celebrity during the Corona crisis, also warns of the health consequences of climate change: “Due to the rising temperatures, mosquitoes are becoming native to us, which actually have no place in these latitudes.” Even if not all mosquitoes are carriers, diseases such as dengue fever or the Zika virus will have to be dealt with, and the Anopheles mosquito may soon be brought to Germany: “Malaria! These are things that we can avoid with good climate protection could.”
