Dresden - A group of climate activists attracted attention at Dresden Central Station today by briefly blocking the intersection at Fritz-Löffler-Straße (B170) and Bayerische Straße. According to the police, the protest action, during which each direction of travel was shut down for exactly seven minutes, went off without a hitch and as planned.
A novelty at this demonstration: the activists refrained from using climate stickers and deliberately allowed public transport buses to pass, while drivers reacted surprisingly calmly to the blockade. With a striking banner reading "Traffic jams are annoying for you, climate collapse is deadly for everyone", the demonstrators expressed their main demand: an urgent increase in the price of CO2.
In addition to this central demand, the climate activists also sent out a signal for another important climate policy measure: the introduction of a speed limit of 100 km/h on German freeways. This demand aims to reduce fuel consumption and therefore CO2 emissions, which would have a direct impact on the national climate balance.
