“Does the F stand for fossils?”
Fridays for Future sends 101 questions to the FDP
06/07/2023, 07:18 am
The FDP announces a catalog with 101 questions for Robert Habeck on the heating law, from which only 77 ultimately become. In the debate it is assumed that the Free Democrats deliberately want to create a mood. From Fridays for Future comes a return carriage – with a lot of polemics.
Fridays for Future has sent a catalog with 101 questions on climate protection to the parliamentary group and party leadership of the FDP. “After the free liberals have been working for months against quick and fair climate protection, we (Fridays for Future) have questions,” says the letter to party leader Christian Lindner, the parliamentary group and the free liberals as a whole. The catalog of questions ranges from inquiries about the position of the FDP on central climate policy concepts to polemics.
Among other things, the activists want to know how the party wants to reduce air pollution in traffic and what they think of mechanisms to compensate for greenhouse gases emitted elsewhere. The role of heat pumps is also discussed. Other questions: “Why are a few Porsches more important than mobility for everyone?” and “Does the F in FDP stand for fossils?”. The list ends with the sentence “How dare you!”, Translated: “How dare you!”, which the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg threw at the participants at the UN climate summit in New York in 2019.
According to Fridays for Future, some of the questions submitted were selected from hundreds of suggestions that were submitted to the organization after a call to Instagram. It is no coincidence that the activists are currently sending 101 questions. In May, FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai announced in the “Bild” newspaper that his parliamentary group would ask Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck a list of questions, without which the deliberations on the heating law could not start. According to the Federal Ministry of Economics, these were never received. A shorter list from the FDP parliamentary group was submitted, as well as a joint list of MPs from the SPD and the Greens.