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> Uh...Germany's actually recarbonized by shutting down their nuclear Germany has most definitely not recarbonized. Germany has consistently reduced CO2 emissi

• cschwarm 4y ago
  > it would have been quicker if Germany had kept nuclear online no question This is a misconception. Germany invested in renewables because we wanted to get rid of nuclear, not to save the climate. Germany has a population of about 80 million. That's a sufficiently large sample, so one cannot expect Germans to be psychologically or morally different to any other large population in the world. And none of those countries has managed to do something about the climate in any meaningful sense. Consequently, neither would have Germany. Without a nuclear phase out, there would have been almost no investments in wind & solar from Germany. Consequently, neither wind nor solar would look as impressive as they do now because today's prices would have been reached only in a decade or so. The level of coal power would have been mostly unaffected.