Climate climb-downs have failed to damage Germany’s Greens
a Green party in a crisis-hit government. Which news image would you dread more: footage of monster mechanical claws tearing up lush fields to expand a coal mine, or of a riot squad dragging away Greta Thunberg, the impish, Swedish-born patron saint of climate-change activism?
The political blow to the Greens should have been huge. Spawned by sandal-clad anti-nuclear hotheads in the 1980s, the party now sits in power not just in Berlin but in ruling coalitions in 12 of Germany’s 16 states, including North Rhine-Westphalia. Elected to slash emissions and protect nature, the Greens have instead been forced, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and disruption of energy flows to Germany, into embarrassing backdowns across a range of environmental issues.
More surprising to outside observers, the Greens have gained converts not by responding to the Ukraine crisis with calls for peace and moderation. Both the party leadership and its supporters have instead gone beyond every other party, including the conservative Christian Democratic Union of former chancellor Angela Merkel, in pushing for stronger action against Russia.
persists, the dominant trend in the party is pragmatism. Many hard-line environmentalists did leave the party 15 years ago, yet its overall membership has quadrupled. “We used to be coupled with thetowards the centre we can now fish in two ponds.” The typical Green voter may feel strongly about the environment, but also disillusioned with stodgy old left-right politics.
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