End of the summer holidays. That is, only for "Anne Will" is the break. The summer continues – and with it the problem of the drought and the question: "How should we change our behavior?" The issue of the program is just as pleasant as threatening: not "like". But how".
In the end, the physicist and climate impact researcher Hans-Oachim Schellnhuber tells the threatening joke about the man jumping from the skyscraper and, on the second floor, realizes that it is not so bad. Pointe: "We are currently in this situation."
Earlier, the TV studio of Anne Will meticulously designed everything that contributes to global warming and therefore to the whims of the climate – from coal-fired power plants to food waste. This includes the area of the economy that is currently suffering the most from the drought: agriculture.
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Will asks Werner Schwarz, a factory farmer and farmer in the farmers' association, according to the farmer's policy "If it does not rain for weeks, climate change has broken out. " She would like to be applauded because "I have thought about it for a long time". Schwarz is full of irritated, this rule is not known to him.
He is, however, known, the demand for agriculture, climate-friendly to operate. Schwarz assures us: "It's our turn." But he still can not expect billions from agriculture minister Julia Klöckner (CDU). Klöckner, even though she would become Chancellor, then Secretary-General of the United Nations and ultimately the first pop star, will probably always be called the "winemaker's daughter".
Unlike former ministers at work, she herself has no rubber boots on her, her policy is to balance to find the interests of consumers and the needs of farmers. She hears the call for billions of aid very well, but only wants to decide after the official crop balance, so at the end of this month.
When Wills asks if the farmers have made excessive demands, Klöckner answers dryly what she has been saying for weeks: "We will carefully study the data." They give facts priority over "subjective individual harvest forecasts". For example, some wheat producers would have "up to 20 percent higher income", they have to take everything into account.
Annalena Baerbock, party leader of the Greens, is also in her element in this matter. This year it was the drought, last year it was the frost damage, before the extreme rainfall in southern Germany. The result is too extreme, the problem "a bottomless pit". And now the German climate target for 2020 is missing.
What to do with methane and carbon dioxide? Make incentives? Prohibit? Schellnhuber sighs: "We actually know that we are in the wrong movie, but there is human inertia, and those who are in the wrong movie do not manage to get up and leave the cinema." Here is the required policy. On the one hand, one must "give something to people" on the one hand. On the other hand, we all wanted to be part of a good story & # 39 ;.
Andreas Pinkwart, FDP Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia, is not a friend of prohibitions, both by nature and by a party. For incentives, he only has tax benefits when buying a new heating. He does not want to fly, another climate killer, not taxed, although it is politically sought and subsidized by kerosene.
The poor pensioner who has never flown in her life. Or the student who wants to travel to the United States. These people should also be allowed to fly, so Pinkwart. However, he wants to make a policy that values environmental protection – whatever that may be with the ridiculously low rates.
Schellnhuber does not understand either and needs five minutes to ask the question: "What do you think of taxation? Kerosine?" Pinkwart Patzig: "Can we do that?" As long as it applies throughout Europe and that Antwerp or Strasbourg have no advantages over German airports, just the free market.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP), Germany's prime minister of the Environment, once called environmental protection a "civil right". is so and enforceable, at least in Brussels Klöckner thinks it is good, but does not want to anticipate statements "out of respect for the separation of powers." Schellnhuber also sketches the dystopia that might possibly be "physically" uninhabitable in the future – and we would also feel that in Europe.
In the end, the question is less "how" we do it, but "like", and until that time it will remain dry, if not excited.
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