Munich (dpa / lby) - The Protestant state bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm brought together climate activists of the "last generation" and the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) for a conversation. A spokesman for the regional church confirmed on Wednesday the meeting on Tuesday evening, which the regional bishop had made public on his Facebook page. Bedford-Strohm suggested a kind of Christmas break in the protests, in which activists had recently blocked roads several times - often by sticking to the roadway.
During this Christmas break, the activists could draw strength, police officers would not have to do any additional holiday work and politicians could concentrate on decisive action, said the regional bishop. A spokeswoman for the "Last Generation" said on Wednesday, however, that climate activists would not consider a Christmas break because time was too short. "We will continue and intensify the blockades," she emphasized.
Both Bedford-Strohm and the activists' spokeswoman praised the positive atmosphere of the talks. You listened to each other. The regional bishop also emphasized the need for trade: "The urgency to act quickly and decisively in view of the approaching tipping point in global warming has become very clear. My clear impression is that clear signals from politicians to act even more decisively here would help , to let the political energy, which is now flowing into the forms of protest, flow more into the necessary concrete transformations."
