Climate change is probably the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. Germany has been a country with few problems economically and geographically.
All seems to be given to achieve climate goals. But by far it's not enough.
Knowing this, Germany can be used as an example, showing us how difficult and complex climate change and its effects on society, politics and economics really is.
"Fragments Of Climate Change" portrays a society that is only a wink away from climate collapse and documents Germany's ambitious plans to become a climate-neutral industrial nation by 2045.
The nuclear phase-out has already been decided. And coal-fired power generation should also be phased out by 2038. Germany's climate law also stipulates that Germany will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Germany is one of the international pioneers in the fight against the crisis, but in order to break this climate-damaging normality and create a climate-friendly reality of life, there must be three times as many solar systems and wind farms in Germany by 2030. The age of green colonialism has begun and once again the richest are demanding huge amounts of raw materials, such as lithium and copper, in order to promise themselves a green future.
Only Germany's demand for these raw materials would simply overwhelm the world market. Even though Germany is one of the economically strongest and financially richest countries, it seems almost impossible to face the coming extremes. Germany has achieved its climate goals for 2022. However, according to Dirk Messner, President of the Federal Environment Agency, progress is still far too slow.
We are approaching the tipping point and must honestly ask ourselves what a sustainable future can look like. Actually, most people know what needs to be done and there is just a lack of political will to implement these measures. Society has probably never been more divided between selfishness and fear than it is now.
My photos are fragments intending to evoke a sense of crisis. They are testimonies showing the values ​​and norms of our society at this point in time and portrays the complexity and disruption during Germany`s green transformation.