What a blessing that we live in a country where you can express your opinion on the street, even if it is the greatest nonsense or even criticism of political decisions.

This is often necessary and right as long as it is done without violence.

Blockages are not part of it.

Like the one in the Kiel Canal a few days ago, so that no terminal for liquefied natural gas would be built there, because burning the gas is harmful to the climate.

With the same justification, one could be against building new roads in the floodplains because the bad cars are driving there - a miracle that no one has thought of it yet. The energy transition will not work without gas; the power plants have to deliver when the sun and wind fail. But the protest fits the spirit of denial that has spread everywhere. Nuclear power is dangerous, so switch off. Coal, oil and gas are destroying the climate, so shut down.

There is also well-founded resistance against the alternatives: biofuel means tank instead of plate, biogas stinks, put it away. Power lines destroy the landscape, we don't want that. And then the wind power: birds are shredded, in the sea the whales hit the pedestal, on land the infrasound drives people crazy, and if not, the shadow casts it. That's why basically everyone is for wind turbines, just not stop at their own door.

There are otherwise very serious environmental organizations who are suing building projects without having any idea where clean energy should come from for Germans, and certainly not for ten billion people. The protest culture that the Green Party grew up with will likely fall on its feet after the election. The targeted two percent area for wind power does not sound like much, but it is almost half of what is paved with roads. How do they want to cram that through against all odds?