A climate activist who announced a hunger strike in Berlin 30 days ago called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to publicly commit to a radical change in climate policy, BTA reported.
Engineer Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick, who has not eaten since March 7, said he was ready to die if he had to.
A second activist joined the 49-year-old 12 days ago. The two live in a tented camp in the park in the area between the Bundestag and the Chancellery in Berlin.
With the campaign titled “Starve until you are honest”, they want to force Scholz the German government to issue a statement on the climate crisis saying that “the existence of human civilization is extremely threatened by the climate crisis&rdquo ;.
Activists are also demanding that the chancellor acknowledge the existence of the problem. “Now we must radically change course, albeit years late,”, they urged.
„I am hungry for honesty and I am ready to die for the truth to come out,” Metzeler-Kick said at a press conference.
He announced that he was ready to "escalate the hunger strike to the limit".
The next possible step for the two activists is to stop the juice they are still taking. When he dies, the facts about global warming and its effects - including storms, droughts, floods and famines - will be "pulled from the shadows", the environmental engineer said.
According to a doctor tending to the starving, both are in stable health. In extreme cases, people can survive a hunger strike for 50 to 70 days.
The climate activist group “Science Rebellion” called on his supporters to also not eat for one to two days as a sign of solidarity.