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Environmentalist Leader Admits, Development and Climate Policy Are Not Compatible

Carla Reemtsma, leader of Germany’s radical environmentalist Fridays for Future grouping, candidly admitted in an interview with the Swiss business daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung Nov. 21, that it is “not realistic to push, like hell, for economic development if we want at the same time to run an effective climate policy.” NZZ dedicated a full page to Reemtsma, in which she insists, “Nuclear energy is not a realistic scenario.”

It is not accidental for the Swiss financial oligarchy mouthpiece: Reemtsma is, together with her cousin Luisa Neubauer—also a leader of Fridays for Future—a scion of a billionaire family, former owners of the Reemtsma cigarette company and currently shareholders of the oldest private bank in Germany, Berenberg Bank. Carla Reemtsma and Luisa Neubauer’s grandmother Dagmar Reemtsma, who “educated” the two girls in radical environmentalism, was a pioneer of the Green movement in Germany. Their great-grandfather Alwin Siegfried Fürchtegott Reemtsma was a major donor to the Nazi party and Standardenführer of the Waffen-SS.

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