Edgar Gardener

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Edgar Ludwig Gärtner (born July 29, 1949 in Magdlos ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author . He works as a ghostwriter and strategy consultant in Germany and the South of France .

Life

Growing up in a Catholic boarding school , he became familiar with the orthogenesis of the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin . After an electrical apprenticeship, he studied hydrobiology and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Aix-Marseille , France, and graduated with the Diplôme d'études approfondies in applied ecology (Ecologie appliquée) .

In the 1980s he worked for the science magazine Science & Vie . This was followed by research and teaching positions at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and at the University of Kassel . From 1989 to 1993 he was the editor in charge of the ecological business information service Ökologische Briefe in Frankfurt am Main , founded by Jürgen Rauschenel , and then until 1996 editor-in-chief of the WWF journal. Since then he has worked as a freelance editor and consultant, particularly in the areas of risk assessment and sustainability for the chemical industry, associations and specialist journals in Germany and Switzerland. From 2005 to the end of 2007 he also headed the environmental forum of the think tank Center for the New Europe (CNE) in Brussels . He works as a journalist for various newspapers and blogs at peculiar free . He is also a member of the German Language Association and the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society .

Positions

Gärtner is a "climate skeptic" . He described climate policy as a “new form of class struggle from above” and sits on the so-called advisory board of the climate denial organization EIKE . He thinks global warming is positive and doubts that humans are responsible for it. He sees the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) as an instrument of “conformity”, to which people are sent by governments and also recalled, and in which lobby groups set the direction. He claims that debates are "blocked from the top", that "big finance" is preventing debates on climate change, that subconscious suicidal drives are driving people onto the streets and that Europe is soon to become a colony of China. He describes the climate protection activist Greta Thunberg as “a poor girl” who is abused by politics and her parents. In addition, there is a lobby policy behind the climate protection policy, which would destroy the German auto industry and thus jobs.

On his own website he recommends websites from among conspiracy theorists such as B. Kopp-Online or Wahrheiten.org, where, among other things, articles about the 'BRD lie', the ' 9/11 lie ' and the ' evolution lie ' can be found, as well as from the right spectrum such as Politically Incorrect .

Publications

  • with Jörg Goldberg: discussion on growth and the environmental crisis. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7609-0135-2 .
  • Working class and ecology. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-88012-589-9 .
  • with André Leisewitz (Red.): Ecology - appropriation of nature and natural theory. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7609-0932-9 .
  • Forest dieback and environmental policy in the Federal Republic. Institute for Marxist Studies and Research , Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Unions and ecology. Nachrichten-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-88367-058-8 .
  • The Düsseldorf airport fire. A documentation in questions and quotes. Working group PVC and the environment, Bonn 1997.
  • Precaution or arbitrariness? Plastic softeners in the political crossfire. Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-602-14722-3 .
  • Eco nihilism. A Critique of Political Ecology. TvR Medienverlag, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020598-9 .
  • Eco-Nihilism 2012. Suicide in Green. TvR Medienverlag, Jena 2012, ISBN 978-3-940431-31-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Profile of Edgar Gärtner on gaertner-online.de
  2. ↑ a b c "I don't think the idea is that crazy" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 23, 2018. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Stefan Schocher: Climate change deniers. “Climate is also just weather” . In: Goethe-Institut , March 2020. Retrieved on March 19, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Gardener, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardener, Edgar Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydrobiologist, ecologist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Handmaid