Sahra Wagenknecht calls for a climate turnaround: "Should be strictly prohibited"

The West Sahra Wagenknecht calls for a climate turnaround: "Should be strictly prohibited" Henrik Jonathan Zinn • 2 hours • 2 minutes reading time The federal government will slide from one crisis to the next in 2024. The odyssey reached its peak last Wednesday (November 6), when Chancellor Scholz first let the traffic light collapse before announcing the vote of confidence. In the meantime, a date for potential new elections seems to have been found: February 23, 2025. The opposition is rubbing its hands in glee in view of the poor poll ratings of the coalition parties. The BSW headed by Sahra Wagenknecht also sees good chances. Now an unequivocal demand from the 55-year-old is being made public. The leaders of the CDU/CSU and SPD parliamentary groups have agreed that new elections should be held on February 23, 2025. The final decision as to whether voters will actually be asked to go to the ballot box on that day now rests with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. While the SPD in particular is afraid of that Sunday because of the frustrating poll results (15.5 percent, as of November 11/INSA), the opposition is looking forward to it. Not only the Union (32.5 percent) and the AfD (19.5 percent) are among the winners, but also the BSW. Sahra Wagenknecht can therefore look forward to seven percent at the federal level. Sahra Wagenknecht calls for the use of fossil fuels After the successes in the eastern elections, overcoming the five percent hurdle would be another milestone in the party's still young history. In the final stages of the current cabinet, Wagenknecht is now causing a stir in the plenary session again because she is taking issue with the climate policy of the traffic light coalition. While the latter is focusing on the expansion of renewable energies, the BSW is calling it a mistake. t-online was the first to report on this. According to a response to a query from Sahra Wagenknecht to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, there are currently almost 8,000 wind turbines in forests (2,450), nature parks (3,908) and landscape conservation areas (1,630) in Germany. This is a thorn in the side of the alliance leader. She wants to drastically reduce this high rate in sensitive areas. Further news: "The installation of wind turbines, especially in nature conservation areas, should be strictly prohibited," she told t-online. Wind turbines in those zones are "not a contribution to climate protection, but environmental destruction." Sahra Wagenknecht is calling for a rapid rethink in climate policy. Her statement has been revised by the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). For example, wind turbines are usually located in forests used exclusively by the timber industry and not in "primary forests" or "primeval forests." Where a wind turbine can be installed in Germany is strictly regulated and laid down in the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). According to Wagenknecht, looking ahead to the winter months, it would also show "how naive it is, given our climatic conditions, to rely almost exclusively on wind and solar power and to expand renewables without considering the consequences." The BSW is therefore calling for fossil fuels to be maintained. "In order to overcome the economic crisis, energy prices must fall. This is the only way we can give industry and small and medium-sized businesses a boost and relieve the burden on citizens," says Wagenknecht.