It's quite hilarious to hear those phrases here every single time. No it's neither backwards, nor self-destructive and never was. Self-destructive behaviour i

It's quite hilarious to hear those phrases here every single time. No it's neither backwards, nor self-destructive and never was. Self-destructive behaviour is if you create waste you can't get rid of. Like in the case of Germany. Backwards thinking is when you hold onto an out of date technology democratic, western countries have dropped in favour of a new, cheaper and better technology [1]. And no, as a preemptive counter-argument because it will also appear here and will be wrong: not a single coal plant would have been shut earlier than the current plan [2] to shut them all down outlines because the reason never was power but jobs in regions which are already hit by unemployment. By now (2019) renewable energy share rose to 42,6%[3] in Germany. So when Freiburg dropped nuclear and "developed as an environmental economics and solar research hub with a packed green CV", the only backwards and self-destructive thinking here is your comment. [1]https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.742611.de/dwr-20-11-1.pdf https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.74261... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-germany-coal/germany-agrees-40-billion-euro-coal-exit-deal-for-states-companies-idUSKBN1ZF0OS https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-germany-co... [3] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...