How dare you!
How dare you!
It is by far Greta Thunberg's best-known sentence - and one would have wished that she hurled such contempt not only at the old white heads of state, but also at the violent demonstrators in Lützerath.
Thunberg, however, preferred to lament the alleged police violence, called for further resistance, after all the fight for Lützerath was not over yet, and felt reminded of the Lord of the Rings in view of the coal mining.
It really does look like Mordor - the dark realm of Sauron.
The fate of the earth is not decided in Lützerath
So the world of the climate activist looks so black and white.
The good fight the bad.
Only Lützerath is not the place where the fate of the earth is decided.
Whether the place is dredged or not doesn't really matter in the fight against climate change.
And there is also no evil ruler who wants to turn entire continents into a huge desolate opencast mine, especially not in this country.
In Germany, the exit from coal has long been a done deal.
But Thunberg doesn't seem to care about that.
She prefers to try to make Lützerath a symbol in the fight against climate change.
After all, advancing excavators are more descriptive than abstract percentages.
But does one save the world with such climate populism?
Hardly likely.