From Klimanachrichten

By KlimaNachrichten Editor

Frank Bosse

A very revealing interview is there in the “Spiegel” behind the paywall.
Carla Hinrichs from the movement “The Last Generation Before the Kippunkte” (that’s her full name) announces something, including a renaming. Among other things, she says:

Hinrichs: We are not giving up the fight for climate justice, but at the same time we want to build something that better copes with the new reality. Our coexistence can be better and fairer… We want to make connections and prepare for the crises to come. It’s about mutual security, social justice and cohesion…It’s reaching for the stars. I don’t feel like taking small steps. We want everything to be different. We believe that everything can be different… We want to be able to bring thousands of people onto the streets at critical moments who stand up for a peaceful, democratic system. This requires training…But who still believes that everything can continue as before? Capitalism and our current political system are plunging us into the abyss. We decided not to just go along with it, not to hope for a miracle. We are peaceful and democratic, we demand more from democracy, and we believe that we can create a better world… If we are successful, everything we have done, at some point, will be called a peaceful revolution.  

That sounds somewhat confused and puzzling, as does an imminent renaming of the movement. After numerous questionable actions such as spraying the Brandenburg Gate with paint (which was later anything but easy to remove) and throwing paint or mashed potatoes at art objects, the “Last Generation” has not exactly collected sympathy and has never been able to rally a majority behind its ideas in the past.
The activists did not always have well thought-out plans. When they glued themselves to the railing of the conductor’s podium in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, they hadn’t considered that it was removable.
The two activists were quickly removed, with their hands glued to the railing. A grotesque picture, but the faces of the activists were even more grotesque to look at when they noticed their flop.
They did not reach really large masses with the actions, rather annoyed victims.
Hinrichs sees it no differently in the current interview when she says:

“The masses didn’t show up.”

So now it’s completely different. As she doesn’t say, she leaves many things vague but wants to overthrow capitalism because it is bad. Apparently, she does not waste a thought on how the environment has suffered in other social systems, the environmental contamination in the former GDR is a warning sign.

 
In the past, from about 1850 onwards, no other has functioned longer in a developed country.
For readers of the novel “Blackout-Morgen ist es zu spät” by Marc Elsberg, none of this comes as a surprise.
The thriller from 2012 is about initially mysterious manipulations of the power supply, which ultimately lead to an almost global blackout.

Gas distribution stations were already the goal of the “Last Generation”, but the activists failed to recognize which valves are only reserve valves. It was like closing a dead end at its end. Pointless, then.

Towards the end of the book (“Day 13”) we learn something about the motives of a group that calls itself “Reset” in the novel (could this perhaps be the still secret successor name of the “Last Generation?”) and who were behind the attacks, which were also deadly.

Marc Elsberg writes about this in the book:

“The pamphlets and manifestos they have published speak of a fairer, more solidary order, which can only be achieved through a complete restart. RESET. Reset the system to zero. If they take away the foundations of our civilization, the idea goes, we will have to reorganize everything.” 

He also had an assessment ready when writing, as fitting as the “fist on the eye” to Hinrichs today:

“Among terrorists of all camps, one type is particularly common, regardless of ideological preferences: we call him the ‘righteous’ type. He or she – among the assassins are also women – is firmly convinced that he or she is in possession of the only truth that can save us. Which wouldn’t be so bad, each of us knows someone who thinks that way. This quality becomes explosive when such people are also convinced that they can enforce their truth by any conceivable means.” 

For the reader of both the Hinrichs interview and the novel, a “Blackout Reloaded” seems to be in the offing in “The Last Generation Before the Tipping Points” and the possible continuation with “other means” under a new name. Hinrich’s messages then no longer appear encrypted. Almost identical style, very similar statements, very similar spirit.

In the verdict, Elsberg himself may well follow: Here openly announces terrorism with far-reaching consequences. The driving force seems to be the “firm conviction” of a climate catastrophe that has occurred. Even in the former name, tipping points played the main role. In the literature, one learns who planted this term (“Tipping Points”) in the collective consciousness in the context of the climate. It was none other than H.-J. Schellnhuber, the founding father of PIK Potsdam, when he was interviewed by a BBC journalist in Stockholm in 2004. He could not have guessed that his PR metaphor at the time could ultimately also be the impetus for terror-like actions in order to “want to enforce the truth of the movement by every conceivable means,” as Elsberg wrote. Or is it??

One can only hope that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution will keep a consistent eye on all this.