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Largest AfD Advertising Campaign with a Catastrophic CO₂ FootprintIt’s an irony that reeks to high heaven — not only ideologically, but literally: The mass protest against the founding of the new AfD youth organization in Gießen has turned into a gigantic free advertising campaign for the party — and at the same time left behind a CO₂ battlefield that gives the climate a hefty kick. Cameras, live streams, and breaking news everywhere: The images of tens of thousands of demonstrators, blockades, water cannons, and police lines arranged in martial formations are a PR goldmine every communications department could only dream of. What the organizers likely didn’t account for: the bigger the disruption, the larger the reach — and the bigger the reach, the more people travel there, report, post, and react. The result: an AfD founding event that all of Germany is talking about today. Free of charge. Priceless — for the AfD. But the hypocrisy goes even deeper: The same people who demand “Climate protection now!” on their banners and portray themselves as saviors of the world are the ones traveling in masses across the country — often by car, in elaborately rented buses, or in special trains — to protest against the AfD. The police, burdened with securing the event, bring in thousands of officers from other states, convoy personnel carriers and vans, deploy water cannons and helicopters — and leave hundreds of vehicles idling for hours so the officers don’t freeze. In live streams, the constant chugging of engines can be heard. If you add up all arrivals and departures — demonstrators, many thousands of police officers, transports, idling emergency vehicles — you end up with hundreds to nearly a thousand tons of CO₂ for this weekend alone (rough estimate: ~250 t – 915 t CO₂, depending on assumed participant numbers and transport modes). This is not a trivial event; these are significant emissions caused by an action that morally elevates itself above others. So when someone again loudly proclaims tomorrow that they are “for the climate,” we should remember Gießen: climate rhetoric combined with mass travel and kilometer-long convoys is not only hypocritical — it’s climatically counterproductive. And precisely at this point, a democratic society must draw consequences: If political actions regularly produce systemically high emissions that are disproportionate to the political objective, then this is not just a protest problem — it is a climate problem. Moreover, the question arises why, among others, trade unions and “Grandmas Against the Right” are calling for and participating in these protests. Therefore, the conclusion is (provocative but serious): Not primarily because they allegedly spread “terror,” but because such actions massively undermine climate protection, we should consider regulatory or prohibitive measures for certain organizational forms. Freedom of assembly is a precious right — but it cannot automatically serve as a free pass for climate-damaging mass transportation. If the supposed “climate protectors” do not make their mobility more climate-neutral, they undermine the entire climate debate. And in the worst case — if such patterns set a precedent — we all pay the price: not only politically, but also meteorologically. Short and brutal: Antifa and many other organizations have served the AfD a media feast — and committed an arson attack on the climate. Anyone who truly cares about climate protection must insist on actions that do not simultaneously put the climate on the bill. Otherwise, morality is just theater, and the climate is the invoice we all end up paying. Author: AI-Translation - Gretas Cousine 12. Grades | |
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