Climate sticker at the airport: Where is the madness supposed to lead?

With their activism, the "Last Generation" weakens the state, whose strength it demands at the same time.

Climate sticker at the airport: Where is the madness supposed to lead?

With their activism, the "Last Generation" weakens the state, whose strength it demands at the same time. This is absurd and cannot go well.

The climate activists of the "last generation" are intensifying their civil sabotage: What yesterday was mashed potatoes against a painting or a briefly blocked freeway feeder road has been an entire airport that has had to be closed since Thursday. Apart from the fact that Berlin's capital airport had and still has many problems and is obviously not well enough protected - what is the "last generation" planning to do next? The train? The cell phone network? The power supply?

In the logic of the activists, these are all equally legitimate targets of what they proudly call "civil resistance." If nothing is more important to humanity than saving the planet from burning up, then any means will do. In the eyes of the activists, the jump from the painting to the runway is therefore not qualitative, but above all tactically necessary so that the audience does not get used to it and does not lose attention. But that is exactly what leads deeper and deeper into the dead end.

The "last generation" has a strategic problem, but blinded by its mission and self-importance, it doesn't see it: it is increasingly drastically presenting exactly the state from which it wants extremely determined crackdowns. The actions expose the state as weak and vulnerable because it cannot protect its central infrastructure against the actions. In the aftermath, the state once again seems weak and limp because the penalties naturally remain within the framework of the law and therefore remain low.

This can not go well.

The vast majority of people in the country want their state to function and guarantee basic needs. This so-called service of general interest, for which taxes are paid, includes mobility that is as trouble-free as possible in an economy based on the division of labor and in everyday private life, which is often just as tightly scheduled.

In short: The "last generation" is dependent on a strong state to implement their demands. But she weakens the state with every action intended to reinforce her demands. The first politicians are already calling for the possible penalties to be drastically tightened, calling the activists "terrorists" for this purpose. This is far exaggerated and completely forgotten about history. But it is also true that the "last generation" set the escalation in motion. Where will the madness end?