Greenpeace on the Merz–Macron Agreement on the End of Combustion Engines
The planned weakening of CO2 requirements for new cars in the EU endangers climate protection and enables the registration of millions of combustion-engine vehicles beyond the previous end date.
Martin Kaiser, executive director of Greenpeace, sees a threefold danger in this:
The text reports on a consensual weakening of the EU regulation, under which new cars must reduce their CO2 emissions by only 90 percent by 2035 instead of to zero. Greenpeace criticises that this weakening is not to be tied to conditions such as the use of green steel. As a result, millions of new cars with combustion engines would be registered in the EU beyond the previous end date. Martin Kaiser, executive director of Greenpeace, sees a threefold danger in this. The text is focused on a political agreement between Germany and France and refers to current media reports. The core message is a warning against a dilution of climate targets in the automotive sector.
Worldview
what this means- What, according to this text, is the root of the evil?
- Ignorance, illusion, a false view of reality
- Where does the evil reside?
- in the economy, politics, or social structures
- What helps against it?
- just social or political conditions
- What is human being according to this text?
- self-determined, the author of one's own actions
- Where is history heading?
- it is getting worse, an order is coming to an end
- What does the text base its claim on?
- on argument, logic, science
- To whom does the text's call for devotion apply?
- also to animals, plants, and all of creation
- Where is the text's criticism directed?
- at others, at society, at other groups
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What the text calls for
- Klimaziele im Automobilbereich nicht verwässern (social)
Measured
- Basic stance
- -1 from -2 to 2
- Insistence
- 2 of 3
- Reach
- 4 of 5
- Concreteness
- 3 of 3
- Boundary
- 1 of 3
- Time
- past 0, present 2, future 2