Luisa Neubauer

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Luisa Neubauer, 2019
Luisa Neubauer at TINCON @ re: publica 2019

Luisa-Marie Neubauer (born  April 21, 1996 in Hamburg ) is a German climate protection activist . In Germany she is one of the main organizers of the Greta Thunberg- inspired school strike, Fridays for Future (“climate strike ”). She advocates a coal phase-out in Germany by 2030 and a climate policy that is compatible with the Paris Agreement . She also expresses growth criticism . Neubauer is a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and is involved in various organizations in which, among other things, she campaigns for intergenerational justice and against global poverty.

Life

Neubauer grew up in Hamburg-Iserbrook as the youngest of four siblings. Your mother is a nurse. Her grandmother, whom she sees as her great role model, was temporarily married to Feiko Reemtsma . Her grandmother was involved in the anti-nuclear power movement of the 1980s, sensitized her to the climate problem and gave her her share in the taz cooperative . Two of her three older siblings live in London . Her cousin Carla Reemtsma is also one of the leading figures of Fridays for Future in Germany.

Already in her youth she was involved in social policy, initially mainly in the church. In 2014 she passed her Abitur at the Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Blankenese . The following year she worked for a development aid project in Tanzania and on an organic farm in England . In the 2015/2016 winter semester, she began studying geography at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . She spent a semester abroad at University College London and received a Germany grant and a grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is close to the Greens . In the summer semester of 2020, she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Science .

Participation in non-governmental organizations

Since 2016 she has been the youth ambassador of the development non-governmental organization ONE . In addition, she was already involved in the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations , the international climate protection organization 350.org , the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, the Fossil Free climate campaign and the German NGO Das Hunger Projekt .

Together with other students she reached with the campaign “ Divest ! Withdraw your money! ”That the University of Göttingen will no longer invest in industries that make money with coal, oil or gas.

In 2018 she took part as one of four German delegates at the World Youth Summit Y7, a supplement to the G7 summit , in Ottawa , Canada . In October 2018, in response to the planned clearing in the Hambach Forest, the delegation initiated an open letter to the Federal Government in which it called on it to condemn the actions of the energy producer RWE in the Hambach Forest and pleaded for intergenerational equity in climate policy . The letter was signed by 100 young people such as activists Ali Can and Felix Finkbeiner and the BUND youth organization.

In December 2018 she was a youth delegate for the German Society for the United Nations at the world climate summit in Katowice , where she met Greta Thunberg, the initiator of Fridays for Future .

Co-organization of climate strikes

Neubauer (left) with Greta Thunberg in March 2019 at a demonstration by Fridays for Future in Hamburg.
Neubauer on the climate strike in Berlin in November 2019
Neubauer in front of the Brandenburg Gate

At the beginning of 2019 she became known as one of the leading activists of Fridays for Future in Germany. In many media, Luisa Neubauer is regarded as "the German face" of this movement.

Neubauer said that the strikes initiated by the students for an effective climate protection policy were not in themselves the goal of their commitment. She considers the work in the background to be more important: “What we do is incredibly sustainable. We involve people in structures, we try to design the event in such a way that something can be learned. And we have fundamental debates about what we envision as climate protection. ”You create something new: a modern political movement without a detailed program and membership. 250 local groups, it is said at the time , have already arisen in Germany.

After the Fridays for Future protests against Siemens' participation in the planned Australian hard coal mine Carmichael , Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser offered her a seat “on a supervisory body for environmental issues” at Siemens Energy . She declined because she would then be committed to the interests of the company and Siemens would no longer be able to comment independently. Instead, she suggested to Kaeser that an expert from Scientists for Future be brought into the committee. Kaeser declined on the grounds that Siemens already had enough scientists and experts.

Journalism

From 2017 to 2019, Neubauer wrote as a ONE youth ambassador for the German edition of Huffpost . As a guest author she also wrote articles for various other online magazines, e.g. B. for the blog of the WWF .

Since September 19, 2019, Neubauer has a column in Stern . In weekly alternation with the philosopher Richard David Precht , the social psychologist Harald Welzer and the cultural scientist Aleida Assmann , she writes under the motto “On the way to tomorrow”.

On October 16, 2019, together with Alexander Repenning, she published the book From the End of the Climate Crisis - A History of Our Future .

Positions and appearances

Objectives

In an interview with Axel Springer's board member Mathias Döpfner , Neubauer said: “We have to stop producing oil, gas and coal. We need a prosperous, happy, loving society that can live without CO₂ emissions ”, which led to the following conclusion in a study by the Institute for Protest and Movement Research :“ A foreseeable challenge for FFF arises from the fact that the campaign is about Going beyond the climate issue, what is meant by demands such as 'We have to rethink democracy' and 'We have to move away from quantitative growth and consumption towards qualitative growth with happiness, freedom and love'. "

In relation to the taz , Neubauer spoke out in favor of overcoming the paradigm “climate protection endangers prosperity”.

Urgency of climate protection

As a guest author of the WWF blog, Luisa Neubauer described her view of the urgently required action in the climate crisis on January 24, 2019:

“Because it actually feels like we're sitting in a car that is heading for an abyss. But instead of braking, you accelerate. We were put in this car without asking. This abyss really exists. Man-made climate change is real and these days we are experiencing the serious changes that it brings with it. We are the involuntary passengers. And by 'we' I mean the generation that will have to live with the consequences of climate change more than anyone else. 'We' are also the last generation who will still be able to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis. Our drivers are the politicians, decision-makers and industrial directors who have their feet on the accelerator. "

Relationship to politics

Neubauer is a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the Green Youth , but says he is not active in party work.

At the basic convention of Alliance 90 / The Greens on March 29, 2019, Neubauer gave a speech that was greeted with much applause. She called for an emissions budget for Germany. "If even the Greens can't do that, then I don't know why we're going to take to the streets at all," said Neubauer.

Neubauer rated the European elections in 2019 as a central event to motivate European youth for climate protection. According to her, the grand coalition failed after the start of the climate strikes because it postponed the passage of a climate protection law and celebrated a coal phase-out that was ten years too late for the climate.

At the EU summit in Sibiu in May 2019, Neubauer met with other climate activists Emmanuel Macron and eight other EU heads of state and government.

In an interview with the Tagesthemen on August 20, 2020 after a conversation with other activists at Chancellor Angela Merkel's, Luisa Neubauer was skeptical about the activities of the federal government to achieve the climate target of 1.5 percent global warming. Who, if not Germany, could lead the way here? She also expressed her irritation about the commissioning of new coal-fired power plants.

Controversy with Peter Altmaier

Neubauer organized a demonstration in Berlin at which several thousand participants gathered in front of the Federal Ministry of Economics and the Federal Chancellery at the same time as the coal commission meeting . On the day of the demonstration, she and two other representatives of the movement met with Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier and handed the commission an open letter which, among other things, called for a faster coal exit. Neubauer told the economy minister, according to The Guardian , that he was part of the problem because he worked for industry rather than people or the planet.

In a dispute with Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier in Spiegel on March 16, 2019, Luisa Neubauer expressed the following views on climate protection policy:

  • The total German budget for CO 2 emissions that are still permissible in order to make the necessary German contribution to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will, under the current conditions, be exhausted before 2030. According to the 2019 political planning, high-emission coal-fired power plants should still run until 2038. "That corresponds neither in terms of climate policy nor physically to the Paris Treaty ."
  • In the transport sector , the German federal government wanted to reduce CO 2 emissions by 40 percent by 2030. That is not an ambitious goal, but it is likely to be missed. Directed against Altmaier: "We see that our future is on your list of priorities far behind that of VW."
  • When asked by the interviewer where she would start with climate protection, Neubauer replied: “We have to quickly harvest the low-hanging fruits of climate protection, and that is the 14 power plant blocks. If we turn them off now, we could meet the climate targets by 2020. That would be economically feasible if it did not jeopardize energy security, and we would have net zero on coal emissions in ten years. "
  • Altmaier's rejection of solutions in the “quick snap” - which could lead to massive job losses and for “craftsmen and medium-sized companies” to energy price increases that impair their international competitiveness - replies Neubauer: “If we had started 20 years ago to reduce global emissions by four percent per year , we could easily comply with the Paris Climate Agreement. Instead, you would have to save 18 percent CO2 per year worldwide. We are racing at an enormous speed towards ecological damage that cannot be repaired in any way. "

Appearance in hard but fair

On March 25, 2019, Neubauer explained the positions of Fridays for Future in the ARD talk show Hart but fair . When Ulf Poschardt, editor-in-chief of Welt , interjected that e-cars had “no soul”, she replied: “Sorry, we don't have time to take care of the soul.” While mankind is racing into a climate crisis, “ old white men ”to such considerations. In an opinion piece in Die Welt , Alexander Straßner found - without naming the context - that Neubauer's choice of words “old, white man” was derogatory. She says there is a lack of willingness to negotiate and compromise, for example with the coal phase-out.

Opinion on knowledge of climate science in politics and journalism

On May 9, 2019, Neubauer commented in Die Zeit : “Many political journalists have an opinion on the climate, but unfortunately little idea. This is one of the reasons why debates are being carried out loudly - while the government is largely spared critical inquiries. ”In it, she complains that the political elite have so far been able to avoid taking a clear stand for effective climate protection“ because the journalists have allowed it ”is necessary that more political journalists had the relevant expertise in order to bring the relevant issues into the political debate. Every day, the world export champion Germany is a little further off the path indicated by the Paris Agreement . "In these times it should be a matter of course that journalists from all departments know about the climate crisis." Stories are needed, also outside the knowledge department, that make the abstract understandable: "Continuous, factual and independent of the outside temperatures."

During a visit to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , Greta Thunberg and she herself were presented by scientists as follows: “The accumulation of our emissions over the past 140 years has made mankind a geological force. We're creating deserts, we're changing the way oceans and air masses circulate, we're smashing glaciers and terrorizing the ecosystems on which we depend. ”The government and the opposition, journalism and the public are still ahead of us, said Neubauer to deal with the climate “in all honesty”. If the conditions have changed accordingly, Neubauer hopes for a “climate-cultural-political revolution” in the future.

Position on air travel

Air travel that Neubauer undertook in the past was received in the media: Jan Fleischhauer mentions them in a column together with Katharina Schulze , the chairman of the parliamentary group of the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament, and accuses her of inconsistency, as it is typical for her milieu . FAZ journalist Philip Plickert also complains inconsistently ; it is according to him, is that Neubauer itself out as a climate activist and "rousing speeches Green Party meetings and in student demonstrations" hold, but at the same time "several times larger CO a 2 footprint than the average citizen" have. On Instagram , she published photos that documented a "considerable number of long-distance trips to America, Asia and Africa".

Political opponents of Neubauer's use of the hashtag "#langstreckenluisa" as an opportunity for malicious comments on Twitter . Birgit Schmid noted in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung a shit storm on young protagonists of the climate movement: “Above all, climate girls are met with outrage on the Internet that exceeds their own anger. They are angry with the politicians who, in their eyes, do nothing. This anger in turn angered their opponents, mostly men. "

For Neubauer, “criticism of personal behavior distracts from larger problems on a structural-political level”. It also expresses a generation conflict and a question of power that poses private ecological behavior against larger political issues such as coal energy and air travel. You yourself eat largely vegan and now fly less than before. Two of her siblings who live in London are now visiting her by train.

On July 18, 2019 Die Welt reported that Luisa Neubauer had stated that a ban on domestic German flights was conceivable for better climate protection under the condition of the expansion of the railway system .

Corona crisis and climate change

In a video chat at the end of April 2020, when asked how she assessed the measures to contain the climate catastrophe compared to the global "emergency brake" in view of the corona crisis , Neubauer said that she had never given herself to the illusion that "our society really is understood how existentially climate change threatens our lives ”. Therefore, they do not embitter the sharp reaction to the pandemic, especially since it is "also a catastrophe for many, many people." You can see very clearly "what has long been missing in the communication of the climate catastrophe: the dimension of human suffering." whether Fridays for Future shouldn't have agitated more radically for climate protection in view of the drastic images of the Corona crisis, for example from Italy , replied Neubauer: “We want politicians to stick to a signed contract. That's very unradical. ” Fridays for Future is a family event suitable for the masses . Referring to the “trillion packages” that were being put together to let the Corona crisis end lightly, Neubauer demands consideration for the greenhouse gas budget: “If around billions were put into some climate-killing industrial sector, which then has to go on working forever so that Taxpayer gets his toads back, well, good night then, and seriously, look at forest fires, droughts, storms and so on. "

Publications

  • Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning: From the end of the climate crisis - A story of our future , Tropen Verlag, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-608-50455-2

Audios

Web links

Commons : Luisa Neubauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Neubauer, Luisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neubauer, Luisa-Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climate protection activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg