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A phrase that is fatally reminiscent of the German far-right politician Alexander Gauland’s horrific description of the twelve years of Nazi rule as a “mere bird shit in over 1,000 years of successful German history.” When an Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politician says something like this, it is rightly criticized as intolerable. When it comes from the climate movement, many just think it’s cool. In an interview with the news magazine Spiegel, Hallam later said: “Climate change is just the tubes that the gas comes down in the gas chamber. It’s just a mechanism through which one generation kills the next generation.
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