The environmental protection organization WWF sees the color attack by the group “Last Generation” on the Basic Law artwork in the Berlin government district as counterproductive for the concern of climate protection. “That’s wrong symbolism. Here the climate protest is being done a disservice,” said Christoph Heinrich, Managing Director of WWF Germany, to the newspapers of the Bayern media group.
“I am concerned that climate protection through such actions could only be perceived by the population as a concern of extremists,” added Heinrich. Defiling monuments to the Basic Law is like casting doubt on the Basic Law. “And that should not be the message of the Last Generation,” warned Heinrich.
On Saturday, activists from the Last Generation group threw a black liquid against the glass walls of Israeli artist Dani Karavan’s art installation Basic Law 49. They smeared them with brushes on the panes on which the laser-engraved 19 articles of the Basic Law are written. They stuck posters above them with the inscription “Oil or basic rights?”.
Heinrich said of the actions in which members of the “Last Generation” stuck to the streets and blocked traffic: “It’s provocative, it’s annoying, but that’s how protest happens. One can somehow still talk about such forms. In addition, this is directed against car traffic, which is climate-relevant.
