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Another article that neglects to mention that we had already decided to quit nuclear in 2002. But the corrupt government we had in 2010 reverted that. I'd also

• merb 5y ago
  not sure why you are downvoted. you basically said nothing wrong the article is plain fud. as if germanies' co2 emission alone did make our world wide temperature rise so bad. the study/article also dismisses so much things. like that we have basically no end storage, that nuclear was already dead in germany and that the plants all were mostly over their end of lifetime anyway (but the governement raised it over and over), such a stupid study/article.
  • tonyjstark 5y ago
    Additionally the government started to reduce subsidizing for renewable energy which ruined a lot of very high tech and innovative companies in the solar power field. Further the government made it harder to install wind turbines in the countryside. All while still pumping money in coal.
  • javagram 5y ago
    “ as if germanies' co2 emission alone did make our world wide temperature rise so bad” This nicely demonstrates how CO2 emissions is a collective action problem between all the world’s countries. Any one country, even the #1 emitter the USA, giving up on fossil fuels isn’t enough to stop changing the climate via CO2 emission. So each country can claim that its failure to build nuclear or to replace all fossil fuels with renewable and battery storage isn’t a big deal.
    • LorenPechtel 5y ago
      The #1 emitter is China, not the US.
      • domano 5y ago
        Per head USA is first, in absolute terms china is.