New ways

Climate activist now relies on talking instead of sticking

Taped out! The climate stickers were also active in Upper Austria, but now the last generation has disbanded.(Bild: Lauber/laumat.at Matthias)

The Last Generation is - at least officially - history, having announced its own dissolution. But a 62-year-old man from Linz is carrying on even after the end of the climate activists, albeit with less activism and all the more persuasion, as he explains in an interview with the "Krone" newspaper.

Friedrich Eibensteiner was actually a good guy all his life, as he says himself. "I didn't even go to a demonstration when I was a chemistry student," says the now 62-year-old father of two. But around a year and a half ago, the owner of a company was drawn to the Last Generation. The trigger was a quote from Chancellor Nehammer about e-fuels. "I couldn't believe what he said and realized that politicians were simply not interested in doing anything about climate change. And that there might be a lack of knowledge," says Eibensteiner - and from then on, he took to the streets to shake society awake - in vain.