Berlin, FRG (Weltexpress). The CO₂ ideology is jeopardising Germany’s future. A top manager is now calling for the CO₂ tax to be abolished! It threatens 200,000 jobs and is destroying the competitiveness of German industry. But public service media such as ARD and ZDF are hardly reporting on it, and the spokespeople for the mainstream parties are remaining silent.
Christian Kullmann, head of one of the largest companies in the German chemical industry, openly stated in an interview with the FAZ on 8 October 2025 what most other top managers unfortunately only say on the quiet. It is a wake-up call to a country that is strangling itself with its climate policy. With his venture, he is now fighting on the front line against the increasingly stringent and costly regulations emanating from the centre of the CO₂ cult in Brussels.
The high priests of the fraudulent climate cult in Brussels and Berlin still declare CO₂ (carbon dioxide), which is essential for plant growth, to be the arch-enemy of humanity with religious zeal. In order to successfully combat this apocalyptic plague, unimaginable sums of money and other resources must of course be mobilised, which are naturally skimmed off by the state via levies and taxes and paid for by the “little man”. The money then disappears into friendly networks of green consulting and net-zero production companies. For those in the right places, this is an extremely lucrative business model.
And at the top of this pyramid sits a woman who, as German Defence Minister and later with the COVID jabs, has already gained extensive experience with such business models. And if we want to prevent our children and grandchildren from soon being roasted to death by the sun, then we must all be prepared to make sacrifices and offer up Europe’s once proud economic engine – Germany and its industry – on the altar of green virtue. But wait! Now a heretic has dared to break the reverent silence.
Christian Kullmann, the fearless head of chemical giant Evonik, has said it: “The CO₂ cult must be buried!” Finally, one wants to shout, finally a business leader who does not beg for subsidies with his head bowed, but calls a spade a spade. Kullmann’s outcry is a wake-up call for a country that has become obsessed with ecological madness while its factories stand idle and unemployment figures skyrocket. It is a farce that plays out before our eyes every day.
The German economy, once the backbone of Europe, is being strangled by an ideology that, under the guise of climate protection, is funneling billions into the pockets of bureaucrats, NGO activists and green profiteers. While citizens bleed for their heating and fuel, the apostles of CO₂ reduction celebrate the next round of the “energy transition” in their climate-neutral conference rooms.
But Kullmann’s words could be the spark that brings this house of cards crashing down. It is time to drop the masks and reveal the truth about the CO₂ cult: it is not a salvation, but an economic disaster that is bleeding Germany dry financially, while the high priests in Brussels rub their hands together and continue to distribute subsidies to green projects.
The CO₂ tax: a financial vampire
Let’s talk numbers – those boring but incorruptible witnesses to reality that even the most ardent climate fanatics cannot ignore. From 2027, the EU plans to tighten its emissions trading system, which could drive the price of a tonne of CO₂ up to a whopping 200 €. Sounds like a bargain, right? For the 400 million tonnes of CO₂ that Germany emits annually, this means an additional burden of – hold on to your hats – 40 billion euros. Per year! That’s enough money to buy a few small countries, or at least drive German industry into bankruptcy once and for all.
But don’t worry, dear citizens, it’s all for the sake of saving the planet. Who needs jobs when you can buy CO₂ certificates instead? The irony could hardly be greater: while industry groans under this financial guillotine, the money is not flowing into innovative technologies or genuine environmental projects. No, around 90 per cent of the revenue from the CO₂ tax goes directly into national budgets, where it props up the overstretched budgets of governments that have long since lost track of what is going on.
The rest? It goes into the coffers of the EU, or more precisely into the pockets of Ursula von der Leyen and her green entourage, who want to pump a whopping 750 billion euros into the channels of the “green patronage economy” by 2034. Patronage economy – a nice word, isn’t it? It perfectly describes how the EU distributes subsidies to its loyal disciples while German industry is brought to its knees.
Let’s take a look at the victims of this madness: Bosch plans to cut 22,000 jobs, ZF Friedrichshafen 7,600 by 2030. Over 24,000 insolvencies are expected in 2025 – a new record that we can surely celebrate with a climate-neutral party. Kullmann speaks of 200,000 jobs at risk, but let’s be honest: that’s probably still optimistic. Every week, 10,000 jobs disappear, and the German economy resembles a sinking ship whose captains in Brussels are still shouting “Full speed ahead!” while water is already pouring into the cabins.
The Green Deal – Brussels’ expensive fairy tale
This glamorous fairy tale promises us a world without CO₂, without worries and with pink unicorns in every solar power plant. But like every good fairy tale, this one has a catch: it’s expensive. Very expensive. With its Green Deal, the EU has erected a monument to its own hubris that makes even the Pyramids of Giza look like a sandcastle. 750 billion euros in subsidies are to be spent by 2034 to finance the green utopia. But who will foot the bill? That’s right, taxpayers and industry, which is already on its knees in Germany.
With a mixture of bureaucratic arrogance and ecological self-righteousness, Brussels has created a system that is stifling the economy. Tariffs on steel, plastic taxes, recycling levies – the EU is tapping every conceivable source of capital to keep its debt union alive. Eurobonds, disguised as a rescue for the economy, are nothing more than another nail in the coffin of European competitiveness. And while bureaucrats dream of a green future in their climate-neutral offices, the real economy continues to shrink.
Kullmann’s call to abolish the carbon tax is a desperate attempt to stop this madness before Germany finally slips into insignificance.
