Environmental Destruction Agency: tiny edit to an amendment could cripple Germany’s natural areas protections

National habitat conserv law weakened crop

Merkel’s environment committee is considering changing one word in an environmental protection law – from “involvement” to “agreement” – which could make it nearly impossible to establish protected natural areas, because all the ministries, such as Commerce and Transportation, would have to sign off on them.

Below is my translation of an opinion piece about it from Der Spiegel magazine (sort of like Time). My title, “Environmental Destruction Agency” is loose translation of the original, which is a pun based on the similarity between the German words for pollution and protection.  Continue reading “Environmental Destruction Agency: tiny edit to an amendment could cripple Germany’s natural areas protections”