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Ökofimmel (subtitle: "How we try to save the world and what we do with it") is a non-fiction book by the German journalist Alexander Neubacher . It was published in 2012 in the Spiegel- Buch series by Verlag deutsche Verlags-Anstalt and has 272 pages.

author

Alexander Neubacher, born 1968 in Krefeld, studied economics at the University of Cologne and is a graduate of the Cologne School of Journalism. He was the editor of “Wochenpost” and “Bizz Capital” and has been working as a business editor in the Spiegel office in Berlin since 1999. For his work he was u. a. awarded the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize and the Media Prize of German Pediatricians.

content

Neubacher, a self-declared environmentalist, criticizes numerous measures in the book that are intended to serve environmental protection, but are in reality nonsensical or even counterproductive. In doing so, he also shows ideological motives of apparent environmentalists aimed at their own social prestige or the devaluation of others.

Among other things, he deals with recyclable waste that is pre-sorted by consumers but ends up in waste incineration plants, with low water levels in sewer systems as a result of water savers in toilets and showers, which lead to odor pollution and damage to the sewer system and to the filling of the same with fresh drinking water Environmental problems caused by bio-fuel and energy-saving lamps containing mercury, the counterproductive effect of the so-called can deposit, which has led to higher disposable quotas due to the now seemingly environmentally friendly deposit, the legend of the allegedly declining, but actually greatly increased polar bear populations due to modern fear topics such as the Climate change or, in the history of the environmental movement, topics that were previously “fearful”, such as the so-called forest dieback. He describes parareligious phenomena in the environmental activist scene, in which apocalyptic and infernal conditions are talked about, and a heated mood that has led to denunciation methods with nine- to thirteen-year-old “Kiez climate detectives” who, at the request of the Berlin Greens, are to be trained to “ Environmental offenders ”to report directly to the authorities.

criticism

Bernhard Pötter wrote in the taz that Neubacher's book was "clearly written in response to a riot". The author treats "multi-layered ecological problems" astonishingly "selectively and one-sided" and mentions "not a single word of advice that does not match his opinion". taz author Wolfgang Gast rates it as a “highlight of its genre”, but criticizes: “One or the other criticism is entirely justified, but is bathed in the stream of ridicule”. Wolfgang Reuter described the book in the Handelsblatt as a "must - for eco-skeptics as well as for real ecologists". Also Christiane Grefe attests to the author, he put his finger in the right wounds. In a review for Deutschlandradio Kultur , Susanne Billig complained that Neubacher “too often shortens realities for the sake of ironic effects” and stated that “more objectivity” would have done the book good.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Pötter: The stupid Ökos attack - taz from July 14, 2012
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Gast: Common: always hit the good guys - taz, March 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Reuter: Eco-facts in the truth test. In: www.handelsblatt.com. August 21, 2012, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ via https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/alexander-neubacher/oekofimmel.html , cannot be found at http://www.zeit.de/2012/12/index
  5. ^ Susanne Billig in: Deutschlandradio Kultur from June 8, 2012