Still losing votes after their recent attempt to ban fire, Germany’s Greens are now taking a more innovative approach to reduce the country’s carbon footprint by launching a newly discovered Neanderthal technology.

Wooden spears made of spruce and pine will now be used to fend off wolf attacks while collecting nuts and berries in the pristine German forest. Gunfire is way too yucky.

Neanderthals were not, after all, the brutish loners of early scientific portrayals. Instead, they too may have been innovative, social hunters with advanced toolmaking and social strategies, just like the Greens of today.