The results of the World Climate Conference, the policies of the federal government and CDU leader Merz: saving the world is a long time coming. But a Dortmund striker gives hope.
Monster tackle: Niklas Süle in his rescue act against Kylian Mbappé Photo: Teresa Kroeger/rhr-foto/imago
No, the world wasn’t saved this week either. Nearly. The final exit from fossil fuels seemed within reach for the first time when Annalena Baerbock attended the final negotiations at the World Climate Conference in the Dubai Congress Center.
Confidently sophisticated, with mirrored sunglasses, Airpods, three-camera smartphone and a determined look, the German emissary appeared like a contemporary secret agent of Her Majesty, who does not distract anyone or anything from her noble mission, the downfall of humanity just before the end of the fatal countdown to prevent in time. Especially not some old-fashioned retro sheikhs who are desperate to continue making money from oil and gas. This wish is certainly understandable. Who wouldn’t want Cristiano Ronaldo to play in his hitherto completely unknown group of losers? And no, taz Panter FC wouldn’t say no to that either.
And so it happened as it had to happen. The oil sultans only trembled briefly. In the end, even Baerbock’s cool expression about the climate killers’ evil game could no longer hide the fact that Her Majesty’s name is Olaf. A ruler who doesn’t have too much to say globally and doesn’t show any excessive interest in saving the climate. Unfortunately, the climate minister also had no time for the climate conference because he still had to plug budget holes.
Baerbock at least did what she could do. The recurring criticism of the costs of her external appearance is very silly for a foreign minister. An appropriate outfit is part of her job. The same critics would immediately comment even more maliciously on every slight flaw.
The problem is not that Green representatives have more money at their disposal than low earners. What is politically dangerous, however, is that in trying to save their traffic lights they regularly offend low and middle-income earners.
Anyone who announces socially balanced climate money in the coalition agreement, but then increases CO₂ prices in a self-inflicted budget crisis, making energy even more expensive, without the promised social compensation, should not be surprised if this is exploited by the opposition. Hopefully this doesn’t just help the Union and the AfD. Maybe the weakness of the traffic lights will finally revive the ailing Left Party.
And now, of all times, Jürgen Trittin, the last prominent left-wing Green, is leaving the Bundestag! To reassure left-wing voters who might be in a melancholy mood, he said in farewell that the traffic lights weren’t bad at all because the red-green government, with him as minister, had once decided on much more neoliberal stuff. Oh well. A rather weak consolation and a bittersweet conclusion. Trittin’s appeal for a willingness to compromise among Democrats in his last speech also leaves the question open: how far can compromises go before they become too lazy?
The late Juliane Weber, Helmut Kohl’s legendary, all-knowing office manager, was in power in the country for much longer than Trittin. If you no longer knew them and want to get an idea of what things were like in the 90s, you just have to read the new CDU policy program: little asylum law and a lot of dominant culture. According to Friedrich Merz, the world will be whole again. Well then. Save yourself whoever can.
But, who would have thought, there was still a miracle. Shortly before the end of the week, the supposedly oh-so-quiet Olaf Scholz saved the EU by sending Victor Orbán out for coffee so that the others could vote for Ukraine without him.
The saving act of the week remains Borussia Dortmund’s Niklas Süle’s high leg tackle against Kylian Mbappé, which taz sports colleague Johannes Kopp lovingly called “turf skating”. Süle! Lawn skating! If that is possible, the world can also be saved.
2023-12-17 15:17:15
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