According to Prime Minister Stephan Weil, the northwestern German state of Lower Saxony is currently experiencing record flooding.
“We have never experienced a flood of this magnitude here. Experts have long warned that increasingly common extreme weather events are linked to climate change,” Weil said in a statement on Thursday. The Prime Minister emphasized that in the future we must further increase our commitment to preventing floods and urgently further reduce CO2 emissions.
More than 100,000 people are working to combat flooding in Germany’s second-largest state, Weil said. “The images look similar and yet they are frightening in many places: enormous bodies of water where otherwise relatively small rivers meander through the landscape, dikes reinforced with sandbags, continuously running pumps.”
The Prime Minister condemned the disaster tourism observed in some places. “My urgent appeal to anyone who is curious: leave it alone, go for a walk somewhere else or stay home.” (yam/sda/dpa)
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