Posted on Sep 24, 2021
German election: Climate protesters rally in cities
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Climate change activists are rallying in cities around Germany ahead of federal elections on Sunday.
"No political party is doing enough," Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg told a gathering of thousands in Berlin.
The activists are calling for Germany to do more to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees C and to end the use of coal for power generation by 2030, instead of 2038.
Climate change has been a central theme in the election campaign.
In July, record floods swept western Germany, killing more than 180 people. However, this failed to translate into greater support for the Green Party, which is running third in opinion polls, at about 15%.
The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are in the lead, on about 25%, with the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel trailing on about 22%.
Activists from the "Fridays for the Future" campaign staged protests in about 470 German towns and cities on Friday.
Germany signed up to the targets of the 2015 Paris accord, pledging to limit warming to a maximum of 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. However, it has consistently fallen short of its own targets.
"No political party is doing enough," Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg told a gathering of thousands in Berlin.
The activists are calling for Germany to do more to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees C and to end the use of coal for power generation by 2030, instead of 2038.
Climate change has been a central theme in the election campaign.
In July, record floods swept western Germany, killing more than 180 people. However, this failed to translate into greater support for the Green Party, which is running third in opinion polls, at about 15%.
The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are in the lead, on about 25%, with the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel trailing on about 22%.
Activists from the "Fridays for the Future" campaign staged protests in about 470 German towns and cities on Friday.
Germany signed up to the targets of the 2015 Paris accord, pledging to limit warming to a maximum of 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. However, it has consistently fallen short of its own targets.
German election: Climate protesters rally in cities
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Sad but true. The Energy Companies should really be called the Power Companies with the politicians they buy. I hope our military is making plans on how to deal with the side effects of what's coming. We are already seeing climate refugees on our southern border. But I do wonder how they managed to get from Brazil to here. I'm pretty sure Rachel Carson would salute Greta.
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All it takes is one good volcanic eruption to belch out more air pollution than all the humans in the world combined can produce. This topic is crap. Now I do believe we need to do something about all the solid waste pollution we are putting into the oceans. The earths climate is always changing and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it. All the wind and solar energy they can produce won't compare to the energy that's produced by coal. Natural gas is a great source of clean, but it will run out some day. Nuclear energy is the best and cleanest way to do this, but no one wants a reactor in their back yard.
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