His radical environmental ideas, which were hardly known in the GDR at that time, were far removed from the problems that interested the delegates, and his polemical introduction provoked fierce resentment.
Seine radikal-ökologischen Ideen, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt in der DDR noch kaum bekannt waren, lagen weitab von den Fragen, welche die Delegierten bewegten, und die polemische Einleitung erregte heftigen Unmut.