2023-07-20 20:00:34
Innsbruck (OTS) – On the face of it, hardly anyone has anything once morest environmental protection as long as it doesn’t affect you but others. The planned EU renaturation law shows an enormous need for discussion.
The Renaturation Act is the first Europe-wide law aimed at restoring nature. What societies, what we have destroyed together, should be renatured in order to become climate-friendly and to protect ecosystems from collapsing. According to the EU Environment Agency, more than 80 percent of habitats in the EU are in poor condition. 60 percent of the soils are affected. Fish populations have declined dramatically, as have pollinator populations in meadows and fields. There’s a lot to do.
There is probably agreement on this in the EU, but less so when it comes to measures or steps towards climate protection. The EU renaturation law was approved with a very narrow majority in the EU Parliament. It’s not decided yet. The fronts run along clientele politics. Agrarians versus environmentalists and conservationists. The goal of making Europe climate-neutral by 2050 is so huge that it would have to be discussed in an interdisciplinary and social-scientific manner.
Ursula von der Leyen summarized this goal under the keyword “Green Deal”. It is the prestige project of the EU Commission President and Christian Democrat. But it was from her group, the European People’s Party, EPP, that the most resistance to the planned law came. The argument was so harsh that 6,000 scientists felt compelled to write an open letter and move the argument into the realm of the imagination. The law brings small losses in harvests, extreme weather is significantly more harmful. In any case, critics of the EPP did not want to believe that the Conservatives are concerned regarding the arable land. They see the hard-fought discussion in the election campaign as justified. The European elections are coming up in 2024. It is necessary to stake out fronts. Von der Leyen is considered the most promising candidate and might go into her second term as Commission President if the EPP achieves a corresponding election result.
On the face of it, hardly anyone has anything once morest environmental protection. This is the case at all political levels and probably also at many a regulars’ table. In politics and in private life, however, environmental protection is usually only good if it affects others but not oneself. It will not work without clear and binding guidelines. The “Green Deal” threatens to run out of steam as soon as things get serious. Unfortunately, this was seen in the planned renaturation law.
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