Ecoterrorists shut down power in Berlin Germany leaving tens of thousands of people without power in winter.

 

Police and workers inspect the site of the attack. BBC/AFP/Getty.

An arson attack on a Berlin gas plant has shut down power for 45,000 homes and 2,200 businesses in Berlin Germany. BBC. The attack was committed by the ecoterrorist group Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group) who said the point wasn't to cut power but to protest the fossil fuel economy. The group apologized to poor people who were affected by the attack, but did not express any sympathy for richer people. The attack came in the middle of winter, forcing evacuations and endangering lives in hospitals which had to run on emergency power. Power won't be restored for all customers until this Thursday. Vulkangruppe has a history of ecoterrorism, with a 2024 attack on a Tesla manufacturing plant. 

My Comment:

I can't think of a worse thing to do than cut power to people in the middle of winter. Dealing with winter is hard enough when you have power and heat but cutting those things off? Just despicable. Folks will be suffering for this and there is a real chance people could die because of this. 

For context, I looked at the forecast for Berlin this week. The highs are going to be around 30, below freezing, and the lows in the mid 20's. That seems pretty warm by my Wisconsin standards, but it's still enough to be absolutely miserable if you have no real way to get out of the cold. I don't think it's so cold that pipes will freeze and houses will be damaged but it is enough that everyone that has to deal with it will be miserable. 

Cutting off power to hospitals is probably the biggest concern. All hospitals have backup generators, at least all first world ones do. But even a temporary disruption can cut off power and potentially kill someone. As it stands now, patients had to be moved to different hospitals. Thankfully, though, I am not aware of any deaths because of this attack. 

As for the group that took credit for this attack, Vulkangruppe, I have nothing but contempt for them. Cutting off power to a bunch of innocent people is not going to help the environment. Shutting down every fossil fuel plant in Germany wouldn't actually change anything. 

And these environmental groups never protest countries like India or China, which cause a massive amount of environment damage, even outside of what fossil fuels may or may not do. They don't care about the rivers both countries are killing or the massive amounts of trash they are dumping everywhere. They don't care about the massive amounts of overfishing that China is doing. They care about one of that. What they actually care about is left wing politics. 

Indeed, their responsibility claim was all about economic class, not environmentalism. They can't really explain why cutting off power for a week in Berlin is going to help anything but they do admit to wanting to cause misery for rich people just because they are rich. That's not environmentalist at all, it's just communism. 

The good news is that this attack appears to be backfiring against the Vulkangruppe. Everyone in Germany is furious with this attack, even other left wing groups. I do think that folks are just sick and tired of these environmental protests. They attempt to be as annoying and disruptive as possible and it's obviously having a bad effect on how many people support these radical causes. Indeed, if I was doing whatever I could to try and get people against a group I was a member of, cutting of power for thousands of people in the middle of winter would be at the top of the list.