To be fair, as a Europoor, I like having electricity.
Europe really should have invested in fracking and nuclear power so this would never have been needed, but the Putin-funded "environmentalists" and degrowthers put a stop to that.
Europe really should have invested in fracking and nuclear power so this would never have been needed, but the Putin-funded "environmentalists" and degrowthers put a stop to that.
In almost every part of Europe, you don't have any right to subsurface assets and have to eat the rare (but significant when they do occur) groundwater and seismic harms without recompense. The legal systems incentivise rational people to adopt NIMBYism.
Generally not in any areas where there's something potentially valuable in the ground, though. Mineral rights tend to be separate there.
Any evidence for that? I think a lot of people would not like fracking in their back yards, regardless of being "Putin-funded". Just regular garden variety NIMBY-ism
I personally do not believe that Russia does it in Germany via the Green Party but more so over other parties, such as AfD and BSW.
[1] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127....
[2] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127....
[3] - https://www.greenpeace.de/publikationen/20220517-greenpeace-....
You do not need to control the whole of a ideology driven organisation , when you can nudge the extremists and usefools to undo their own organisation .
The party leadership forwards public transport, the oil lobby finances damaging cars, glueing to streets and other activities. The fanatics of your own site, are the worst enemy .
In my hometown you can still find weathered down stickers over a decade old opposing fracking.
Then again, maybe you mistyped. The decision to shut down the nuclear plants was taken by a conservative government. (Angela Merkel, right after Fukushima).
Admittedly, the greens have been campaigning to shut down nuclear plants, but they also have always campaigned to replace them with Wind and Solar power.
Not bad as a small step towards a perfect future.
The Green Party is anti-nuclear and it’s debatable whether that’s positive or not. But they also are staunchly anti-coal and other carbon based energy sources. The greens have pushed constantly for renewables, both to achieve strategic energy autonomy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
The Germans have introduced the first legislation to subsidize renewables, in 1990, in 2000 under a red/geeen coalition renewed as EEG (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz) that taxed fossil electricity and guaranteed a fixed above market price for producers of renewable electricity. This is widely regarded as a major boost for both solar and wind energy. We did, however, drop the ball a little when the conservatives came back to power. We still do range in the midfield when it comes to pet capita carbon emissions.
We certainly could do better and I wish we did, but blaming it on nuclear power is fairly simplistic. If you look at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/energie/energieverbrauc... for example, then you’ll notice that our love for ICE cars is a major factor - cars are one of our major sources of carbon dioxide emissions, far more than nuclear plants replaced with gas plants.
Even when the conservatives pulled the plug on nuclear power plants in 2011, Germany just stopped decreasing emissions of its electricity production for a year or two. And this was at a time of higher gas prices, so it's even up for debate how much the nuclear exit contributed to that short stagnation.