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An activist in Berlin who has been on hunger strike for 30 days has called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to publicly commit to a radical change in climate policy. Engineer Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick, who has not eaten since March 7, said he is prepared to die if necessary. A second activist joined the 49-year-old 12 days ago. They are living in a tent camp in the park in Berlin’s government district between the Bundestag and the Chancellery. With the campaign, titled “Starve until you are honest,” they want to ensure that Scholz issues a government statement on the climate crisis saying that th…