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Frankfurt (dpa) - Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) emphasized at the Ecumenical Church Congress in Frankfurt that extensive climate protection measures can only be implemented with appropriate political majorities. In a discussion with climate activist Luisa Neubauer on Saturday, Merkel said: “I also understand - and that also makes me a bit sad, of course - that young people say,“ Man, we had to go to court first before they really got us in the government give what is due to us ».» However, the following also applies: "In a democracy, I always have to get majorities for something." The Federal Constitutional Court had obliged the legislature to regulate the Climate Protection Act in more detail for the period after 2030. The Federal Cabinet then decided on a new version on Wednesday.
Your own constituency is a rural one, and there are, for example, many concerns about wind turbines. “It is very serious. Every new power line that we have to build is lamented. " If you don't take the people with you, this could also lead to the fact that at some point the climate deniers might have a majority, which they definitely don't want. "We have seen that the United States of America just failed four years at the highest political level under President Trump, and it is good that they are back now."
Neubauer said: "To be honest, I find it very difficult to frame climate protection, so to speak, with a" But we are in a democracy "subordinate clause, because it implies that democracy is in our way.
For them, the question is not how much climate protection can be afforded before democracy is overstretched.
“But: What do democracies need in the 21st century to get us through these crises, how do they have to be equipped?
Because it is obvious that more climate crises will not do our democracies any good either. "
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Because of Corona, the discussion was recorded without an audience.
The Kirchentag, which runs until Sunday, is largely digital.
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