Disruption of the port of Hamburg
Climate activists block bridge with rapeseed oil
02/21/2022, 09:47 am
This action is not without a certain irony: in order to protest against food waste, the group “uprising of the last generation” disrupts traffic at the port of Hamburg by pouring 60 liters of oil on a bridge. It now has to be bypassed over a wide area.
Members of the group “Uprising of the Last Generation” blocked the Köhlbrandbrücke in Hamburg in the morning in order to disrupt the movement of goods through the port of Hamburg. They spilled 60 liters of rapeseed oil on the road blocked by the police, the group said. According to the police, the bridge was closed “due to a spontaneous meeting”, the area should be largely bypassed.
The group “Uprising of the Last Generation” had announced an expansion of the protests to ports and airports. She calls for a law against food waste and an agricultural turnaround. Its members had already blocked several motorway exits in the past few weeks. On Monday, the group said it had given the federal government an ultimatum by Sunday evening to announce a timeline by when a “Essen-Retten-Gesetz” should be tabled in the Bundestag. There was no reaction.
Therefore, the group sees “no other option” than blocking ports and airports, said its spokeswoman Aimèe van Baalen on Deutschlandfunk. Spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs said Hamburg was “the scene of destruction”. The port of the Hanseatic city shows “the deadly industrial continuation, while the effects of the climate crisis will soon no longer be overlooked here”. The government must enlighten the residents: “Life as we know it today will no longer exist here at the end of this century.” Hinrichs referred to storms and floods.