Climate activist:

“Does this look like a hobby?”

Protest instead of career: Marina Hagen-Canaval fights for climate protection. The young academic has put her professional career on hold for the time being. In other words, she is giving up a comfortable life for the sake of the cause.

(Bild: Dietmar Stiplovsek)

Climate activist and official spokesperson for the "Last Generation Austria" Marina Hagen-Canaval has to deal with many accusations. Including that the "climate stickers" are spoiled kids.

In view of the devastating freak weather in the Mediterranean, it would actually be obvious to discuss the effects of climate change. Instead, climate activists are being talked and scolded. In recent weeks, they have been drawing attention to the problems of climate change on an almost daily basis. Drivers in particular have come into conflict with the "climate stickers". In forums and at regulars' tables, the accusation is often made that the climate activists are either spoiled kids from well-heeled families or do-nothings who have never worked and don't know what to do with their free time. In other words, people who can't understand how annoying it can be when you're stuck in early morning traffic and can't get to work.