A climate hunger strike held in public in central Berlin was called off after 92 days.
The decision was made on Thursday because Chancellor Olaf Scholz did not change the course of Germany’s global warming policies, nor did he try to argue with the hunger strikers, according to the campaign called “Starve until you are honest.”
Eight people have participated in the strike at various times since it began on March 7, when Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick stopped eating solids. He went 92 days without solid games, and fellow forward Richard Cluse 77 days.
The aim was to provoke Scholz into a statement acknowledging that civilization was being threatened by the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
“Instead of telling the truth about the climate crisis, Scholz prefers to talk about combating the symptoms,” the activists said on Thursday.
Hunger strikers drank small amounts of fruit juice over long periods of time to maintain energy levels. Metzeler-Kick, 49, stopped doing so and was hospitalized earlier this month.
The hunger strikers lived in a camp in the government district in central Berlin.
