BEarlier this month, the German Green Party Unveil An election poster designed to appease voters who may be wary of environmental activism. Its slogan is “Economy and climate have no crisis”, which shows that ambitious carbon emission reduction targets can be achieved without causing unnecessary pain to employment and industry. A few days later, the ecological crisis hit, and devastating floods flooded western Germany and parts of Belgium and the Netherlands. To date, more than 190 people are known to have died, and the intensity and scale of the flood shocked scientists. Record rainfall in northwestern Europe followed record high temperatures in the Americas.Extreme weather events are Become the new normal, As the climate model has long predicted. But some recent peaks have exceeded scientific predictions.
The final impact of the flood on Germany’s September election remains to be seen. However, the country’s major political parties generally believe that this disaster related to global warming has pushed the climate crisis to the forefront of election campaigns. On Sunday, Angela Merkel, the outgoing prime minister, adhere to Germany needs to “speed up the pace of tackling climate change.” Less impressive is the fact that Armin Laschet, the conservative front-runner who succeeded her, was filmed sharing jokes with onlookers while visiting a flooded town.As the president of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the hardest-hit states, the leaders of the Christian Democratic Union can make up for it by tracing the root cause of the fatal failure. Translate satellite warning Evacuate into the ground.
The painful debate is Germany Understandably, given that the climate crisis has led to an increase in the frequency of floods, it is understandable why there is no more effective early warning system. But the flood also highlighted the vital long-term importance of the September polls. Germany It is the most powerful and influential country in Europe. As countries face the difficult choices involved in achieving the ambitious net-zero goal, time and background mean that Merkel’s post-Merkel elections will become a vane of green political hope across Europe and beyond.
After a brief lead in the May polls, the Green Party in Germany experienced hard few weeks. The party’s candidate for prime minister, Annalena Baerbock, suffered a series of political embarrassments, including suspected plagiarism and excessive modification of her resume. Although the Green Party is still expected to win second place after the CDU, so far, the Green Party has failed to seize the opportunity to provide reasons for the gradual changes in the level of green investment at the German and EU levels. At the same time, the declaration issued by the CDU last month, Show small signs The economic activism necessary to respond to the climate emergency. Instead, Mr. Raschelt sought to restore Germany’s constitutional debt brake as part of the restoration of fiscal conservatism after the pandemic. The stakes in this debate are huge. In addition to learning to respond to and adapt to extreme weather events related to global warming, they also need to be treated as warnings that the situation will be worse if the world does not make appropriate investments in a green future. In the fall, Germany has a chance to take the lead.
