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> began in 2014 'picked up in momentum' means I acknowledge it did not begin in 2014 but that the velocity of dissemination and the depth of the narrative incr

• majewsky 9y ago
  As a counterpoint, the German government has been implementing its "Energiewende" (energy revolution) for much longer than that. The Renewable Energies Act became law in 2000 and brought heavy subsidies for deployment of renewables on both individual and utility scale. And as always, government usually trails behind political movements, in this case by several decades. As another data point, the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997 and went into effect in 2005. The Paris Agreement, its most important successor, was signed in 2015, which correlates with the timeline you suggest, but it's pretty impossible that this is connected to the events in Crimea since preparations were already underway for several years at that point.