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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"It's been a long dark night / And I've been waitin' for the morning / It's been a long hard fight / But I see a brand new day a-dawning" Light of a Clear Blue Morning" (1977 #RIP Dolly Parton

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

RWE will be paid $1.22 billion to abandon plans to build wind farms off the U.S. coasts. It intends to invest in new natural gas (!) projects. With a cumulative share of ca. 0.38% in GHG emissions RWE ranks Top 35-40 among all nations for historical climate impact. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Great to be back in Georgia. Georgians are Europe. Maybe more Europe than many of us who were lucky enough to be born on the better side of the iron curtain. Never forget. Tbilisi is a capital city of Europe. 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Listen to President John F. Kennedy in September 1963 dedicating the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, at Grey Towers, Milford , PA. More than 60 ys have passed since and what have we achieved? Where are we now? @parentsforfuture.de @letztegeneration.bsky.social

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Canada on the upcoming election in a nutshell: “Get out & vote by Apr. 28! With the current American president threatening Canada's economy and our very existence, this federal election is one of the most consequential ever. We see from our neighbours down south how disastrous a bad choice can be.”

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Feb 19. 5ys ago. #Hanau: in memory of Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov. #Hanau #SayTheirNames

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

45 minutes into the debate a short question about the climate. Merz says that wind turbines are “not pretty”, and Scholz takes credit for Habecks successes. Come on: In 2024 renewables accounted for almost 60% of electricity generation in Germany. 2021 this figure was below 43%. Do your math!

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Dann wieder Was keiner geglaubt haben wird was keiner gewusst haben konnte was keiner geahnt haben durfte das wird dann wieder das gewesen sein was keiner gewollt haben wollte Erich Fried zu Friedrich Merz , im Januar 2025

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Munich . One year ago. Hundreds of thousands took the streets in January 2024 - and nevertheless the months since have been a winning streak for proto-fashist AfD not only in Germany but also for other populist and anti-democratic politicians around the globe . Including the U.S. Why ?

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

“Even when the creek rises” There is hope. Which hope? Asheville, NC. Nov 25,2024. Formerly sometimes addressed as “climate haven” - until Hurricane Helene in September caused the French Broad River to rise more than 9 m (30.31 ff) above average.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

PCH between Santa Monica and Malibu. Hard to imagine how to recover from this , even in the City of Angels. My heart goes out to my friends and all suffering from the devastating fires. I truly hope that those who profited from that loss, while knowing better since decades, will be held accountable

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Only 7 hours left. A whole city in anticipation to launch the Rideau Canal Skateway’s 55th season. A unique way to enjoy @unesconow.bsky.social world heritage in Ottawa! For us. For our grandchildren rather not anymore.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

By the way, the impact of a global warming period between 1,000 and 700 ys ago on the Arctic ecosystem may have been a key factor in the disappearance of the Dorset

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This ivory maskette in the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC, attributed to Dorset culture 1900-1600 BCE is one of the oldest depictions of a human face in North America. The carving may represent the face of an elderly woman. The lines carved are likely facial tattoos.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

„Saving the world for future generations with evidence , knowledge and inspiration“ The @museumofnature.bsky.social in Ottawa has put a convincing New Year’s resolution on the wall . Grateful for this timely reminder. Happy New Year !

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

If we in the global North do not use our privilege to speak out, we are failing double, adding insult to injury. This award-winning documentary by 350.org is recommended for your holiday watch with friends and family youtu.be/ZJD3vf92KeY

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This is Fracking

YouTube video by 350.org

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What happened at COP29? Culture Advocates Leave COP29 with Pride in Their Efforts, Disappointment in the Outcomes Hope Now Turns to Next Year's COP30 in Brazil. Read our COP29 debrief here: mailchi.mp/climateherit...

Claire McGuire of the International Federation of Libraries and Preserving Legacies' Andrew Potts attend an informal negotiations session on the Global Goal on Adaptation. They are turned around and smiling in white chairs in a large conference room.

Five people standing in front of a yellow and green display that says "Reality?". they are smiling and pointing at the words "climate culture" on the display.

Scenes from in and around the High-Level Ministerial: culture advocates rallied in advance of the ministerial meeting, nine people from across the globe smiling in the COP29 Resilience hub

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We explicitly voted for an administration at odds with all fundamental principles of science and research , from climate change to public health - so why would we even dare to expect some reasonable, responsible, evidence-based decisions? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

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Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Czesław Miłosz Który skrzywdziłeś człowieka prostego śmiechem nad krzywdą jego wybuchając, Gromadę błaznów koło siebie mając Na pomieszanie dobrego i złego, (..) Nie bądź bezpieczny. Poeta pamięta Możesz go zabić – narodzi się nowy. Spisane będą czyny i rozmowy. […] Inscribed at Gdansk monument

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Or with Czeslaw Milosz: You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and evil, to blur the line, (..) Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

August 31, 1983. Gdansk Poland. Nothing what Russia is doing in Georgia comes to us as a surprise. Nothing. Standing with my friends and colleagues in Georgia in these dark days.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

On the eve of the 35th anniversary of a gunman's murder of 14 women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada outlaws another 324 types of firearms . Proposes donating these guns to Ukraine. Sounds convincing. Anybody listening south of the border? www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

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Feds outlaw another 324 types of firearms, propose donating guns to Ukraine

The Liberal government has outlawed another 324 firearm varieties — guns it says belong on the battlefield, not in the hands of hunters or sport shooters.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' FORUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE IIPFCC COP 29 Closing Statement.

Indigenous Peoples from the seven socio-cultural regions wish to condemn the unethical methods and even more unethical outcomes this COP has produced. There is nothing to celebrate here today. As Peoples, as Sovereign Nations, we join the several other Nations that have voiced their vehement objections to these unacceptable decisions that are continuing to destroy our planet. We support the CSOs who have chosen to use silence to refuse to give legitimacy to this sham of a process but we have an obligation to speak and hold our place as rights holders in this space and ensure our disappointment is put on record.
It is unacceptable that human rights and the rights of Indigenous Peoples were removed from NCQG, and instead prioritized carbon market financing, which profoundly harms Indigenous Peoples. While we urgently need direct and equitable access to climate finance for adaptation, mitigation and loss and damage across all seven socio-cultural regions we reiterate that we reject the financial colonization that comes from loans and any other financial mechanisms that perpetuate indebtedness of Nations who have contributed the least to climate change yet bear the brunt of its tragedies.
Our lands, waters, ice and territories are melting and burning. Our Peoples are suffering. We can no longer wait. Expecting us to be grateful for 300 billion by 2035 is expecting us to be grateful for you profiting off our preventable deaths.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

There is no better place for the holidays than the National Parks, especially in this divided country, especially in these dark and hopeless times. Happy Thanksgiving, y‘all and @altnps.bsky.social! Andrew’s Bald, Great Smoky Mountains, NC

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

„For over half a century, these companies chose to fuel profits instead of following their science to prevent what are now likely irreversible, catastrophic climate effects“ and they still do. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...

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Maine Becomes the Latest State to Sue Oil Companies Over Climate Change

In a new lawsuit, the state’s attorney general claims oil companies deceived the public about fossil fuel products’ contributions to climate change.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

„ There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story“. Linda Hogan Visit „Earth: An Immersive Journey, a great experiential and immersive exhibition at @romtoronto.bsky.social

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

There is this place in Ottawa, which has been at the forefront of research in cultural heritage preservation for 50 years. Humbled to be there for Kate Helwigs retirement party this week & meet many former and current colleagues and friends who turned the CCI into the global leader it is.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you want to find out what is still going diametrically wrong in the construction and operation of large museums in times of climate change, I recommend reading this well-researched article (in German and Polish) by Magda Roszkowska for @goetheinstitut.bsky.social www.goethe.de/ins/pl/de/ku...

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„berlin modern”. Ein Museum in Zeiten der Klimakrise

„Wenn dieser Planet wegen des Klimawandels in hundert Jahren nicht mehr von Menschen bevölkert werden kann, dann braucht es auch keine Museen und Kunstwerke mehr“, erklärte Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon, der...

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Well into COP29 (!),here we are: „Despite the urgent need to cut emissions to slow climate change,there is still “no sign” that the world has reached a peak in fossil CO2 emissions.“ In my work against climate-hostile museums,I am as inefficient as the COP globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...

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Fossil fuel CO<sub>2</sub> emissions increase again in 2024

The critical annual update revealing the latest trends in global carbon emissions

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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Australian museum acquires perspex glazing from a painting spray painted by to protester on well-known painting: www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/06/a...

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Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting

Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If we don’t wake up, in a million years, our reflections will be reduced to Tim Hortons fossils that we will find on the banks of the Saint Lawrence. We will study the sedimentary layers and wonder what animal it is.- Québec Musée de la civilisation

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So , by chance, after a terrifying week, I took some comfort in Green Point, Newfoundland, the global stratotype between the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, manifesting one of the deadliest mass extinctions in world history 485 Mill ys ago. Somebody is going to find out what went wrong this time.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For all lost in darkness and despair today. “If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

A rainy evening in London in May. Safeguarding cultural heritage in a shifting climate: exciting debate hosted by Boris Pretzel & Bev Art with amazing panelists Stefan Michalski, Julie McCann, Jonathan Ashley-Smith & Jane Henderson . What a privilege! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmLb...

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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in a Shifting Climate

00:00:00 Welcome from the Norwegian Ambassador to the UK - Tore Hattrem00:03:20 Christian Nielsen introduces the moderator, Boris Pretzel, and the story of h...

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Fossil fuels apparently account for 75% plus of greenhouse gas emissions, which trap heat in the atmosphere and increase global temperatures, leading to more extreme weather events and Climate Crisis. The Vermont approach to hold „Big Oil“ accountable: www.cbsnews.com/news/vermont...

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In historic move, Vermont becomes 1st state to pass law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages

the law would require fossil fuel companies to contribute to a superfund that will be used to help the state adapt to climate change and develop more resilient infrastructure.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

OTD, MemorialDay, and every day, we honor the brave men and women who gave their lives to liberate us from the Nazi plague and protect the freedom we cherish in Germany. We must not take this for granted. Ever. Thank you Glenn Miller

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Are single-use non-disposable coffee-to-go cups, which do not biodegrade and remain in the environment for 100s of years, breaking down into harmful microplastics, really such a new thing or are they around since more than 500 ys? Bartolomäus Zeitblom, Sammlung Würth, Künzelsau

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

„The ultimate reason is continued global growth in the consumption of fossil fuels.” . What does this imply for museums? Building ever more museums with higher energy consumption just keeps adding bricks on the road to perdition keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2024/05/08/l...

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Largest Year–Over-Year Gain in Keeling Curve Set in March

New record for largest 12-month gain in carbon dioxide concentration ever observed The monthly average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory in Ma...

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Claudia Roth eröffnet Jahrestagung des Deutschen Museumsbunds in Aschaffenburg mit Worten, die MuseumsmitarbeiterInnen gern hören: „Museen sind wichtig für das Überleben unserer Demokratie und das muss uns auch etwas wert sein. Museen sind systemrelevant“ #DMB24

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Join us April 16-17 in Berlin to debate „Resilient Cultural Heritage in Times of Climate Crisis“ in the European Partnership Resilient Cultural Heritage under the 2nd Horizon Europe Strategic Plan with focus on research and innovation www.smb.museum/en/whats-new...

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ARCHE Stakeholder Workshop on 16 and 17 April 2024 at the Kulturforum

The Rathgen-Forschungslabor is holding the workshop “Resilient Cultural Heritage in Times of Climate Crisis”.

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Good News: Museumsbund Österreich, Berufsverband Österreichischer Restauratorinnen und Restauratoren (ÖRV) und ARC - Austrian Registrars Committee schließen sich der Empfehlung des Deutschen Museumsbunds zur Erweiterung des Klimakorridors im Museum an. www.museumsbund.at/museumspraxi...

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

This is insane. We need a Masterplan Museum Island 2024 which takes into account the climate crisis. The funds earmarked for the megalomania of the Pergamon Museum renovation correspond more less to the entire support from German MFA to Ukraine since 02/22 www.spiegel.de/panorama/mus...

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Berlin: Sanierung des Pergamonmuseums wird mindestens 121 Millionen Euro teurer

Die jüngste Kostenschätzung für die Sanierung des Pergamonmuseums beträgt 1,5 Milliarden Euro. Doch das ist nicht die ganze Summe. Wann die Museumsinsel fertig sein wird, wissen die Verantwortlichen n...

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Stefan Simon 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @318 ppm CO2 @mcsts.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Wer Menschen ausgrenzt, sie gar vertreiben will, handelt deshalb nicht nur erschreckend inhuman und geschichtsvergessen, sondern zerstört auch die Zukunftsfähigkeit Deutschlands. www.allianz-der-wissenschaftsorganisationen.de/themen-stell...

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