SPIEGEL: Some climate protection groups and politicians are calling on Germans to spend their summer vacations in their own country in the future.

일부 기후보호집단들과 정치인들은 독일인들에게 미래에는 여름휴가를 바로 이곳 독일에서 보내야 할거라고 주장하는데요. 왜냐하면 따뜻해지니까...

Storch: That's just another one of those typically German attempts to save the world with symbolic acts. It makes us feel like better people and morally superior to everyone else.

SPIEGEL: What's wrong with reducing CO2 emissions?

이산화탄소를 줄여야 할텐데요. 대체 뭐가 문제죠?

Storch: It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars -- for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.

Storch: Detailed forecasts are not possible, because we don't know how emissions will in fact develop. We climate researchers can only offer possible scenarios. In other words, things could end up being completely different. But there are undoubtedly parts of the world that will benefit on balance from climate change. Those areas tend to be in the north, where it has been cold and uncomfortable in the past. But it's considered practically heretical to even raise such issues.

Storch: Such claims are completely idiotic and dubious. What they did was to simply perform an extrapolation based on the mortality rate during the exceptionally hot 2003 summer, which took everyone by surprise and for which we were therefore completely unprepared. But if higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon and convert their houses accordingly. The good thing is that all of these changes will not happen overnight, but in the space of decades. We still have enough time to react.

SPIEGEL: Why is it such a taboo to ask about the positive effects of climate change?

그렇다면 왜 이토록 기후변화로 인해 올수 있는 긍정적인 효과들에 대해서 묻기를 터부시 할까요?

Storch: The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

SPIEGEL: Aren't climate researchers helping fuel a state of panic with their generally bleak warnings?

기후관련 연구원들이 우울한 경고들로 없지않아 이런 패닉상태를 더 부추기고 있지 않았습니까?

Storch: Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another legacy of the 1968 generation, which I happen to belong to myself. In fact, it would be better if we just presented the facts and scenarios dispassionately -- and then society can decide for itself what it wants to do to influence climate change.

American Christians Protest Over German Homeschooling Case

"I have read that some doctors claim that children born to siblings could be disabled, but what about disabled parents who have children, or older parents?" asked Patrick.

"일부 의사들은 남매가 사랑을 해서 아이를 갖게 되면, 그 아이들은 장애인이 될수 있다고 하는걸 읽게 됐어요. 그치만, 그럼, 아무 문제 없이 아이를 가질수 있는 장애인 부모들은 뭐고, 또 노인 부모들이 위험을 무릅쓰고 애기를 갖는건 또 뭐죠?"

"People have said that our children are disabled, but that is wrong. They are not disabled," said Patrick.

"사람들은 우리아이들이 장애인이라고 그래요. 아니에요. 그들은 틀렸어요. 우리 아이들은 장애인이 아닙니다."

"Eric, our eldest child, has epilepsy, but he was born two months premature, he also has learning difficulties. Our other daughter, Sarah, has special needs," Patrick said.

"우리 큰애인 에릭은 신경장애를 가지고 있어요. 그건 에릭이 두달 먼저 태어나서 그래요. 그리고 에릭은 학습장애 또한 가지고 있어요. 우리 다른 딸아이 사라는 특수한 보호가 필요해요." 라고 페트릭은 말한다.

"Under Germany's criminal code, which dates back to 1871, it is a crime for close relatives to have sex and it's punishable by up to three years in prison. This law is out of date and it breaches the couple's civil rights," Dr Wilhelm said.

"1871년에 시작된 독일의 형법하에, 근친상간은 범죄이며 3년까지 감옥에서 형을 살아야 합니다. 이 법은 상당히 구식이며, 부부의 민사법상의 권리를 파괴하고 있어요."

"Why are disabled parents allowed to have children, or people with hereditary diseases or women over 40's No-one says that is a crime."

"장애부부들은 왜 아이들을 가질수 있고, 유전되는 질병을 가진 부부들이나 혹은 40세 이상의 여자들은 왜 아이를 가질수 있죠? 그리고 아무도 이런 현상을 범죄라고 하지 않습니다."

"This couple are not harming anyone. It is discrimination. And besides, we must not forget that every child is so valuable," said Dr Wilhelm.