Germany’s woke Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has left to visit Australia, New Zealand and Fiji on a carbon producing jet. This is the politician who once pushed the idea of banning all domestic flights in Germany. But producing vast quantities of carbon is presumably justified because she has to perform a “tedious post-colonial liturgical exercise in Canberra, at which she would oversee the return of “cultural assets” from the Grassi Museum in Leipzig to the Aboriginal Kaurna people. These objects include a fishing net, a long thin stick reported to be a spear, and two shorter sticks variously described as a club and a digging stick or a wooden sword-cum-club and a digging-stick-cum-bark-peeler. The truth is that they’re just sticks and nobody knows what they were for. Nor were these quotidian hunter-gatherer accoutrements stolen from the Kaurna. They were acquired legitimately by German missionaries between 1838 and 1839 in the course of ethnographic research. These then donated them to the Historical Museum in Dresden, via which they found their way to Leipzig.”
But, for the woke Left, historical facts must never get in the way of a spot of moral high groundism. Even if the environment must pay the price.