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Because the green party in the government abides by their ideology instead of pragmatism and retaining wealth.
by EspressoGPT 3y ago
Because the green party in the government abides by their ideology instead of pragmatism and retaining wealth.
- mr_mitm 3y agoIt was the conservative party, CDU, who made the decision after Fukushima to shut down nuclear power.
- ffhhttt 3y agoIt was the Social Democrats and the Greens back in 1998 who decided to stop all nuclear development and close all the existing plants over the next 10-20 years. Nuclear was already long doomed by the time Fukushima happened
- Phil_Latio 3y agoAnd the greens would have done it even sooner or could have stopped it now...
- mr_mitm 3y agoYes, would have, but let's not pretend it's now entirely the green's fault that we now don't have nuclear power, which the comment I replied to did. They could have prolonged the life of only three power plants for a limited amount of time. Going back to nuclear now is a decision that should have been made decades ago, when CDU was ruling.
- EspressoGPT 3y agoAnd it is now being enforced by the green party at the worst time since Fukushima – a period of very expensive and scarce energy – for idealogical reasons.
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- BurningPenguin 3y agoNope. The Greens are the first to give up their ideology to come to an agreement with other parties. It's called "Realpolitik". They were also the ones who warned against increasing dependency to Russia, but were ignored when CDU was in power. You know, the conservative party, that sat on their asses for 16 years doing almost nothing in terms of renewable...
- EspressoGPT 3y agoDoing Realpolitik? Fine. Decreasing dependencies to Russia? Fine. Expanding renewable energies? Fine. Shutting down nuclear power while in an energy crisis? Not-so-fine.