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For other countries, maybe. But Germany doesn't really have any spot devoid of any settlement

So then use nuclear power. Oh wait, you can't because there was an tsunami in Japan.

Germany: "oh well, we'll increase burning clean coal, but create some crazy roadmap that we'll be carbon free in a few decades or so"

Germany needs to get its shit together, energy-wise. You are a disgrace in the union, honestly. With your economical development and technical know-how levels you should be at the forefront.

We had technical know-how. Past tense. Then technology became evil incarnate.

Nowadays we are scared of everything, ignorant of any kind of science. All policy and all public outrage is purely based on ideology and wishful thinking. If one kind of wishful thinking fails, we do not reconsider, we double down or replace by another, even weirder kind of wishful thinking.

Basically, we are back to a pre-renaissance way of thinking. We are back in the dark ages.

And I'm honestly scared of that.

I think its based on the fact, that if you start arguing with moral, logic doesnt matter anymore.

I can tell you that this really tilts me as a german.

Our politics is all wishfull thinking and ideology, but arguing with the laws of thermodynamics isnt really working...

And I'm defenitely neither right wing, old, nor climate sceptic

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