It is only disingenuous if you take it out of context from the parent I was replying too. Which said infrastructure has no legacy from that era and completely

It is only disingenuous if you take it out of context from the parent I was replying too. Which said infrastructure has no legacy from that era and completely overlook the cold-war build up and associated facilities and infrastructure of that era born out of that period. Equally let us not forget that Germany was upto not long ago - curtailed in what it could invest in military and not having that burden saw a shift into area's they could and medical and industry did well. More so when in many parts they had a clean slate to build up from. I'm sure many aspect you mentioned are true - , however the drive for solar was born out of a distrust in nuclear and saw a rise in coal plants - which still has an effect today upon the climate of Europe as many (near on all) are located upon the borders, so that issue shifted and needed to be addressed and solar/wind was the right logical direction for them. But then - NO country is perfect or doing it perfect. But the Germans are trying and done wondrous progress in many area's, let us not forget when they reunified the impact upon their GDP was negligible - that in itself was impressive and whilst in some parts of Germany that legacy still has more of an impact socially, it's progressed a long way and probably more than other countries would of had they been in a comparable situation. >(what is still there as a disparity between some western states and eastern states.) Yes - that is a product of legacy.