Germany: Ethics Council Says Government Should Restrict People’s Rights to Combat Global Warming


Alena Buyx is a biofronthole bioethicist who is currently the chair of the German Ethics Council

You’re going to have to have your freedom restricted for a lot of reasons.

After you did the Covid thing, they know they can just do whatever to you, and you’ll do nothing.

They could even support the Jews slaughtering tens of thousands of little kids and then call you evil if you say they should stop.

European Conservative:

The government may be forced to limit the available choices for citizens in order to battle predicted ‘devastating consequences’ of climate change. That’s the message in an opinion titled “Climate Justice,” published on March 13th by the German Ethics Council.

In the opinion, the Ethics Council—a board of expert advisors established by German law—recommends actions to be taken by corporations, individuals, and the government to ensure the effects of climate change do not unjustly burden “those who are not so well-off.”

Primarily, the Ethics Council says, this should be done on a voluntary basis—through individual ”self-commitment as an expression of one’s individual freedom”—by, for example, “voluntarily abandoning certain vacation, consumption, or mobility practices.”

However, the Council’s statement continues (emphasis added),

On grounds of justice, it can be morally required to contribute to measures to tackle climate change. If one’s own exercise of freedom interferes in an unjust manner with the freedom and welfare of others or of future generations, for example through consumption that is harmful to the climate, the authorities may intervene with restrictions of freedom.


Same institution said forced vaccinations for everyone over 18 are perfectly ethical

In other words: If you cannot be shamed into behaving in a way deemed morally correct by the elite, the government may simply have to force you. Flugscham, from the original Swedish flygskam, meaning “flight shame”—guilt about flying experienced by environmentally conscious travelers—is now an established word in the German vocabulary.

While the opinion states that the Ethics Council is opposed to suspending “democratic freedoms and processes” to reach the desired climate goals, the group says it largely falls to the government to provide the “supportive framework conditions” under which individuals can—as we say to the kids—make good choices.

These framework conditions, the opinion says, should among other things include lowered speed limits, increased “electromobility,” and increased CO2 taxes. The Council suggests a personal emissions limit that cannot be exceeded, and even “the ban on particularly climate-damaging products or services”—or, as Apollo News puts it: “a regulation as to who can buy what and to what extent.”

The German government calls for a lot of things.

The Germans are so admirable in so many ways. When I meet Germans, I’m amazed by their various projects. They’ve all got projects, both professional and personal. We see the results of this sort of psychology in the German industrial production and export industry. No one buys American watches.

However, there are some problems with the Germans. In particular, they seem to have very little ability to resist their government.

Of course, I’m one to talk, being American. But at least in America, people complain and shit. In Germany, millions of people show up to government-organized protests against the opposition.

Snake Baker contributed to this article.