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Wildfires in Canada and Russia. Floats in Germany. Etc, etc...

We have known 40 years what will happen and now for our leaders those consequences seem to come as a surprise.

I hope the Germans will vote for the Green party in the September's federal elections and other countries will follow the example.

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Didn't Germany b decide to dismantle their nuclear power plants?

Yes, and it's not a topic they like to talk about. I have yet to meet a person from Germany that isn't outright in favor of abolishing nuclear, the best I've gotten out of one is to agree that it might have been better to do it after shutting down coal plants.

I dearly hope the Greens will not win. Reducing consumption is an extremely tricky problem, and likely unfeasible without creating large amounts of poverty. I'd rather live in a rich, powerful nation with strong workforce and military rebuilding after each storm than being stripped my last rights and eating worms while a tiny elite still enjoying the freedoms we once had. Please do not fall for the propaganda.

Find smarter Greens and replace your current feel-good Greens with them. For all our sakes.

A strong nation the size of EU nation does not have the resources to fix it. Maybe fight it a bit and try to not make it worse but alone that will not be enough.

US or China might have these sorts of resources, but as we know politicians prefer patches and blame redirection and status quo.

EU's and Germany's emissions are negligible anyhow (9% and 2%, respectively). It's all about the U.S. and China (and maybe India) at this point, especially the latter two that have the strongest increase in emissions. There is no point in inflicting arguably some of the worst politicians in history on these relatively small European nations. They should rather be investing in building a strong workforce and military that can rebuild after storms. The fact that this is not being discussed openly is deeply suspicious.

Germany's per-capita emissions are significantly higher than other Western European nations like the UK and Spain though (9.44 vs 5.55 and 5.40)[1] and pro-nuclear France manages even lower per-capita emissions than those (5.13).

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...

So? Reducing emissions in Germany is still a drop in the bucket.

> Please do not fall for the propaganda.

Yeah I don't know which one you've been listening to but this definitely doesn't only go for people voting green.

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