A few years ago, hundreds of thousands took to the streets for more ambitious climate goals. Today, it is primarily those groups who would be burdened by such policies that are protesting: farmers, commuters, homeowners. The project of ecological transformation seems exhausted. Philipp Staab diagnoses a profound systemic crisis. The prospect of modernization no longer generates legitimacy. Many citizens perceive the state's attempts at regulation as intrusive. Increasingly, what starts as resistance has turned into outright rejection not only of the climate transition but also of liberal fundamental values and democracy itself. According to Staab, green progress has become a source of instability. Instead of the promise of a brighter future, a utopia of stagnation has emerged.