Your party colleague Manfred Haimbuchner once said that it is not known to what extent humans are responsible for climate change. Would you agree with that?
I don’t dispute that he has an influence. It is important that everyone takes personal responsibility for taking action where possible. Maybe you don’t have to drive so much by car, you can also go by bike. But I don’t need an environmental governess telling me where to go and how.
However, personal responsibility does not work so well, as Corona shows.
When you come up with measures that don’t make sense, it’s no surprise that some show civil disobedience. If you tell me that I can only travel by bike or on foot, then driving would be an act of civil disobedience, which is very popular in left-wing thought.
You encourage breaking the law? Who should decide what is justifiable disobedience?
I would have liked to have had this debate with the crazy people who let themselves be paved on the road. If there are measures that affect others, then it is too much. But if I don’t wear a mask on public transport because the heat is unbearable, then that’s an act of common sense and not a malicious breach of the law. Because I don’t hinder anyone and anyone who wants to protect themselves can do so by wearing a mask.
The Viennese FPÖ is considered to be very critical of Herbert Kickl. How satisfied are you with its performance?
We’re certainly not critical of Kickl. You can also see that the polls are rising again with a tough opposition course. In Vienna we are at 18 percent, in the federal government at 20 to 21. The direction is right.
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