The long read: A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the country’s best-liked public figures. Then came the tabloid-driven backlash. Now he has to win the argument all over again
Just as if there were politicians, who would before an election say they’d tackle a problem to get more popular, while actually not working on solutions.
The climate action movement is burning out due to the demands of the climate pathways which are not being met. All the years of campaigning needed constant turnover, because it is and was such a high energy protest - very rarely are such extreme consequences of not acting proven.
It doesn’t help that each and every political fraction wants to influence the climate action movement: revolutionists and reformists, companies and anticapitalists, religions and feminists, fascists and antifascists, parties and autonomists etc… Some of them might have a legitimate claim on the attention economy, but the future of all of these struggles literally necessitate climate action in this decade.
Tabloids are kind of in league with the enemy who is very skilled and experienced (e.g. tobacco, FCKW, lead, asbestos) at casting doubt, delay and criminalisation, which is yet another hurdle.
Just as if there were politicians, who would before an election say they’d tackle a problem to get more popular, while actually not working on solutions.
The climate action movement is burning out due to the demands of the climate pathways which are not being met. All the years of campaigning needed constant turnover, because it is and was such a high energy protest - very rarely are such extreme consequences of not acting proven.
It doesn’t help that each and every political fraction wants to influence the climate action movement: revolutionists and reformists, companies and anticapitalists, religions and feminists, fascists and antifascists, parties and autonomists etc… Some of them might have a legitimate claim on the attention economy, but the future of all of these struggles literally necessitate climate action in this decade.
Tabloids are kind of in league with the enemy who is very skilled and experienced (e.g. tobacco, FCKW, lead, asbestos) at casting doubt, delay and criminalisation, which is yet another hurdle.