
La Germania accusata di aver abbandonato gli obiettivi climatici abolendo il mandato sulle energie rinnovabili | Germania
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/germany-accused-ditching-climate-targets-scraps-renewables-mandate
di PlastDuck
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Forseeable, since the Greens are now in the opposition. This coalition has ruined Germany’s once mighty solar industry 10 years or so ago. They surely can ruin more “green” industries.
You know, had Germany kept it’s nuclear power plants and transitioned all it’s non-nuclear base-load power plants to nuclear…
…as well as continued it’s push for wind and solar…
…Germany would be, pretty much, a completely carbon-free energy economy.
The only fossil fuel consumption would be from motor vehicles and cargo ships.
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But instead, people chose politicians who transitioned Germany from nuclear to coal… because that was more “environmentally friendly.”
Which, to be frank, sounds like the batshittery coming out of America nowadays.
The C in CDU stands for Corruption.
I see we take progressive steps to turn the clocks back a couple of years.
Yes. There’s lunatics east and west destabilizing the world threatening to invade or who knows what. Lets just sit in a ring and sing cumbaya while they invade. at least so they can have fresh air while they’re at it.
Reiche might be the worst politician Germany had since the 1990s. Don’t even get me started on the other CXU members.
Everything’s shitting on the CDU – yeah true. But I feel honestly more disgust for SPD – they know better but letting it all happen just for the sake of being in government. This party has no fucking values left.
Is that something bad?
Germany made the strategic mistake of closing down nuclear.
Is it really a surprise? Line what did anyone expect?
Build nuclear reactors. Build nuclear weapons.
They’re trying their best to get rid of renewables and bringing back gas, however expensive and stupid it may be.
Classic German conservatives. This won’t keep users of r/europe from blaming the greens though.
I find it laughable that this is the part that is criticised and the true issue about this is completely ignored. I understand the people not liking Merz but sometimes it is just criticism to criticise because inone point he is correct nuclear fusion will be the future all engineer friends and physics students I know agree on that.
If this decision is followed by rebuilding Coal plants in the Ruhrgebiet I‘ll be the first to criticise it but most european countries made the decision to invest into Nuclear energy (which makes sense given that Fusion energy is considered the most likely path to clean energy) for the time being only we didn‘t.
Factually Wind and Solar are currently unable to provide the energy demand of the country at reasonable prices and sometimes I am questioning how many of the people in these subs actually are working and paying their bills themselves.
The mistake was abandoning nuclear energy too early (I don’t not conceal the drawbacks but given the alternatives it was the best available option and from what engineers have told me it is the most likely path to truly clean energy one day) when back during fukushima 6 of the 10 most safe nuclear power plants were stationed here in a country that isn’t in the danger of high level esrthquakes.
If the current renewables aren’t able to satisfy energy demands obviously you got to diversify for the time being and when the expected introduction of nuclear fusion is 25 years building energy sources that require 10 years of runtime after a long and expensive build up process can only be considered malinvestment from an economics perspective.
What people rather should criticise instead is Merz‘s unwillingness to invest that money into innovation hubs of nuclear energy and fusion energy in order to build up the needed know-how as early as possible. What the government should be doing right now is to develop the strategy and infrastructure, thinking about how to deal with wastes properly instead of using old salt domes and build the necessary facilities for it and first and foremost fund our universities and promising projects to take a leading role in the science.
If this money is just saved up instead and being reinvested somewhere else in the government to pay pensions or do some dumb fake action regarding immigration to score easy wins with the voters THAT is the real issue not the government admitting on having bet on the wrong horse. And it was the wrong horse because it leads to europeans/germans having less money, companies being less competitive leading to job losses leading to sinking tax revenue which we need to develop and fund better cleaner energy. The sad truth is that global warming requires global actions and the winner of our attempts have been countries like china who are major contributors of pollution and are able to offer low energy prices as a return.
The way to develop green energy therefore has to be to make it economically viable first at that point all countries on earth will follow and we will see meaningfull change. The only countries at that point that won’t change will be the United States & Russia then because they are in the pockets of the Oil lobby. And given our 2% goal we should better invest into nuclear fusion yesterday that technology will solve so many of our problems and I am very much including the political power system that exits right now.