Oil and gas heating are prohibited, combustion cars are banned, and now the German metropolis is to become a "climate capital" at turbo rates. Greens run a climate policy with a crowbar and are already paying the price.
Berlin climate neutral
On Sunday, March 26, the Berliners voted whether their city should become climate neutral in six and a half years. The Greens advance this project, and the initiative behind it raised quite a few money to gain support; the city was covered with posters.
The biggest donations to the multimillion dollar run came from the US, from a German-American couple Albert Wegner and Susan Danzinger and their eco-foundation, supported by funds private equity. Their main donors include a clean technology investor Jochen Wermuth and the PV business foundation Paula Grunov. We can so see what lobby they support, finance the eco-levica in exchange for favorable "green contracts".
Pathological ecology continues
The forced exchange of heating systems, even if they inactive operate, will turn the housing marketplace in Germany upside down. Older residents will have problem maintaining their retirement homes unless they have saved quite a few money that they can invest in insulation and heat pumps. Everyone else can anticipate a rent increase. Scary calculations come in fresh all day.
In order to make the city of Berlin climate neutral in just a fewer years and not in 2045, as previously planned, about EUR 100 billion must be spent – estimated by climate activists. That's over 3 times Berlin's budget. Social collateral harm is likely to be enormous. If money that can only be spent once, will request to be spent on climate action, there will be little for another things. Like social housing.
607 943 votes to yes were needed. As a result, 25% of those entitled to vote could make climate spending mandatory under the law in Berlin. Turnout was besides small. Then you could sue against anything that seemingly does not service climate neutrality. A fresh large Coalition Franziska Giffey Wegner can decide what he wants. The climate imperative is then important.
How does Berlin become climate neutral?
On Saturday, there was a large demonstration for this task outside the Brandenburg Gate. The main talker was: Luisa Neubauer, a climate activist from the Green Party. The plebiscite initiative did not uncover what actions were to be taken to accomplish climate neutrality, but only that it was to be social.
The rich have adequate money anyway, they can easy afford to change transport and change heating. The mediocre will get a green refund paid by the state. And the mediate class will gotta make money, especially advanced earners, i.e. people who gain more than €60,000 a year, so they pay the highest taxation rate.
Green ban policy is unpopular among society
Insa's public opinion poll institute has just established that the alternate for Germany (AfD) is now ahead of the Greens. Demoscopy results lead to “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” to conclude that this is due "official welfare organization policies". This may be true, due to the fact that another polls show how unpopular the prohibitionist Green policy is among the public.
Recently, the ARD-Deutschlandtrend poll showed a clear majority of two-thirds against the ban on the usage of combustion vehicles. Winfried Kretschmann, the head of the Baden-Württemberg government, after the election defeat in Berlin warned his own organization that it was better not to start "cultural War for Cars". Car-land Germany ( Autoland AG ) so demands the Green political decision to limit maximum speed.
More people are opposed to the green absurd heating minister of the economy Robert Habeck; in the Stern poll, 80% voted against him.
The rigid resignation of atomic energy imposed by the Greens, which will be implemented in a fewer weeks, besides has no support for the majority of the population. In the meantime, it should besides have spread that present more harmful brown coal is burning than always before. Greens can't answer that.
Left disassembles, Greens lose
Politically, at the moment, it looks like this: the Left splits into 2 wings – Sahra Wagenknecht and its supporters, or about a 3rd of the factions in the Bundestag – and the rest. Greens are slipping, and in Berlin we see the consequences.
In the German capital, the dream of the anti-personnel alliance of the SPD, the Greens and the Left has just ended. The SPD no longer wants to accept the ideological Greens (key word: the closure of Friedrichstrasse) and besides wants to do more for interior safety in the city. With the Greens, this is almost impossible, due to the fact that with all action – for example against Lebanese and Roma clans – they see xenophobia, racism or yet discrimination on grounds of cultural origin.
Greens in districts and municipalities talk about exile policy
Greens are now under political force in 1 of their core areas – exile policy. Refugees have now besides arrived in the cities and districts where Green decision-makers rule. And they are now telling their organization colleagues at national level, who are further distant from average people, that more places for refugees are not adequate to deal with all the burden of integration, including kindergarten, school and language courses.
Finally, plans, the Greens' identity policy, specified as the desire to genderise German, face widespread rejection among society. Or the thought of further "reforming" electoral law, specified as the introduction of the right to vote at national level from the age of 16.
The subject of obtaining German citizenship for refugees: alternatively of displaced – give a German passport, without basic cognition of German. The improvement of this issue is to go so far as to get a German passport ,just stay legally in the country for 3 years.
In the last 2 years, the polls have consistently shown 70-80% of respondents voting against this plan, which is presently besides being pushed by the Social Democratic president of the Bundestag Bärbel Bas.
Environmental policy as a origin of progressive poverty
In times of crisis, not only the concern for its own financial stableness increases, but at the same time the knowing of intangible projects is decreasing.
They now make life more costly for many people and at the same time advance projects that interest their indigenous supporters at most, but are unpopular in the political center. And anyone who is not their enthusiast is considered “unmodern”. Given this, the melting of the climate for the Greens is inactive average at the moment.
AfD again overtakes the Greens
In fresh AfD polls, 16% are ranked, which is 1 percent point higher than last week. Greens lose 1 point and scope only 15%.
Head of INSA Herrmann Binkert explains: "SPD is clearly the strongest force left of the center. This weakens the Greens due to the fact that it puts their claims to leadership in a different perspective".
Reasons: concrete proposals for the Greens' political solutions, whether the decision to retreat combustion cars, the ban on the installation of gas heaters, etc. do not convince the majority of voters.
Most Germans don't want Green politics
Recently 2 thirds (67%) The Germans in the ARD-Deutschlandtrend program (German public broadcaster) was behind the planned ban on the usage of combustion vehicles from 2035, which are forcing the Greens.
Now most Germans besides reject the full anti-car policy of this party. Even most Green voters are against it. According to the Ins poll for "Bild": 63% of Green voters are opposed to a crucial simplification in parking spaces at their place of residence. Of all German citizens, this percent is as advanced as 67% (for – 22%).
According to a survey by the weekly "Stern", as I mentioned above, about 80% of Germans are opposed to planned bans on oil and gas heating. Only 18% think the plan is right.
In addition, the Greens are mostly liable for withdrawing from atomic power in April. Meanwhile, the Free Democratic organization (FDP) resigned from the atomic power struggle. Although only 29% of Germans want atomic power to be utilized “not more”.
The overwhelming majority of 71% want to proceed utilizing atomic energy ("more", "as now" or "less"), contrary to what the Greens have decided. This is the consequence of a survey conducted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
CDU and CSU besides lose 1 percent point, but with 28% inactive clearly ahead of SPD with 21% (no change). According to the poll, the Left organization gained 5% (plus 1%), and the FDP besides gained 1 point and increased to 8%.
For the "Sonntagstrend", Insa's polling company tested 1,202 people on behalf of the paper from 13 to 17 March. The statistical mistake margin is given plus / minus 3.1 percent points.
AfD politics is simply a voice of common sense, although passive tv audiences call it neo-Nazi. It's besides politics outside of organization deals.
AfD strives to bring together the conservative CDU/CSU electorate and the Union of Values – “conservative cancer” in a shift distant from conservatism to the demoliberal CDU centre.
Matthäus Golla
