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If the suggested political impact of this music is to be believed, the music might be one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time.

Germany has been pretty widely criticized for decommissioning it's nuclear power program, only to replace it with Russian oil.

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that would be an odd criticism because we never generated any meaningful amount of electricity from oil (and started importing Russian fossil resources 30 years before we turned nuclear power plants off). The chief source for energy in Germany was coal. Gas is primarily an industry and heating input rather than a source of power generation, gas plants have only become more popular in recent years.

What replaced all other fossil fuel sources are renewables, which at 50% are now by far the single largest source of energy.

>> only to replace it with Russian oil

with Russian gas.

s/Russian/American/

Either way, Germany has perfected the efficient foot bullet, at least.

I could imagine Kraftwerk devising a stonkin’ “Fußkugel” track, actually ..

Check your facts, please: Germans figuratively shoot themselves in the knee, not the foot ;)