Climate Change Story

 Several news sites are carrying this story from yesterday afternoon (Tuesday), I'll cite Focus for part of this story.

For those who didn't know.....a lot of teenage kids are hyped up on this election (they can't vote).....on the climate emergency.  Yeah, it's the Greta kids, or the Fridays for the Future crowd.

The SPD Party candidate....Olaf Scholz...was at a political rally over in Soltau (town about 30 minutes driving south of Hamburg).  It's his territory and it ought to be a fair number of folks attending....in support.

So this kid....angry, aggravated and consumed....showed up.....teenage gal that I would suggest was around sixteen years old.  

While he was attempting to make his speech....she launched into some screaming tirade.  

What you stumble across in her screaming?  She's mostly talking about this hunger strike going on by climate kids.

Scholz made a talk in his speech over this hunger strike....telling the kids that they needed to end the hunger strike, and AFTER the election....then he'd sit down with the kids to hear their discussion.

How this all works, in the mind of the kids?  What they are asking for is a "citizens' council" that would be a part of the government....to decide on climate change initiatives. 

How this council would work?  Unknown.  Would pro-union folks (concerned over jobs) be allowed on the council?  Unknown.  Would the Bundestag have the power to approve or disapprove council ideas?  Unknown.  Who would appoint people to the council?  Unknown.

I'd offer the humble view that there are presently around a 100-thousand teens in Germany who are hyped-up on this and they will eventually be young men and women in their twenties.....still hyped up.  Somewhere down the line, probably in four years when the next election cycle starts up.....it'll be a hearty and aggravated group of people....possibly resembling the 1960s Red Army Faction crew.