Silent climate blockade instead of support for Fridays for Future

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In order to achieve the climate goals of Paris, two thirds of the residents would have to give up their car in the cities.

The total car traffic must be reduced by half in the next 14 years.

Domestic German flights will be completely canceled.

This is what it says in a study by the Wuppertal Institute for the climate protection movement Fridays for Future.

The goals are certainly worth striving for.

The young climate activists are certain to applaud when they take such demands on the streets.

Parents for Future, Grandparents for Future, Artists for Future, Entrepreneurs for Future, Scientists for Future and similar groups even applaud so loudly that one could even believe in the consensus of a civil society willing to do without.

Unfortunately, the loudest are not always in the majority.

The climate survey of the European Investment Bank (EIB) reminds of this.

According to this, only 15 percent of the respondents in Germany are prepared to change their lives as radically as necessary to protect the climate - that is even less than the European average.

For 38 percent of Germans, not having their own car would be the toughest possible climate protection requirement.

Avoid as many flights as possible to protect the climate?

Not even one in five thinks about it.

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For a long time Germany was able to sell itself as an ecological model country without having to bother its own citizens with noticeable restrictions.

Living comfortably and saving the world at the same time, that seemed possible.

“Wash my fur but don't get me wet”, was the environmental policy expectation of many citizens and the federal government fulfilled them.

Acceptance for climate protection measures was simply bought - be it through industrial cost privileges, through an increase in the commuter allowance or through municipal profit sharing in wind farms.

But this path can hardly be financed, the tax reserves are being eaten up by the corona crisis.

With the introduction of a CO2 price on petrol, heating oil and natural gas at the beginning of the year, the reality comes to the people.

If that is not enough, driving bans could follow, the possibility is already included in the Climate Protection Act.

Politicians have to prepare for tough distribution battles.

The survey by the European Investment Bank shows that the Federal Government cannot rely on voluntary renunciation and a pronounced willingness to suffer on the part of its citizens in pursuing its ambitious climate goals.