Scholz’s three-party alliance agreed on an ambitious agenda to decarbonize the European Union’s biggest economy: getting coal out of the electricity system faster, filling the autobahns with electric vehicles and weaning households off natural gas heating.
Those goals are starting to look ever more distant as Germany’s political mood shifts. First, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turned the energy market upside down, forcing a dash to replace pipeline gas from Siberia and delaying the phaseout of coal. […]
Polls show Europe’s electorates still broadly support net zero goals, but faced with the pressure of higher inflation, that doesn’t mean they’re on board with the climbing costs of making the switch to a greener economy.
Germany’s right-wing and climate-skeptic AfD party has overtaken Scholz’s Social Democrats in popularity. In the UK, Rishi Sunak’s government is backtracking on the climate promises made by Boris Johnson. And France is reeling from riots that are likely to make the climate less of a priority.
The green revolution faces turbulence in Germany and beyond.
The Green Agenda is largely virtue signalling – it’s fine as long as it doesn’t cost you anything. Once the bills come due, it’s a different story.
Notta – or is it?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/06/china-seeks-military-dominance-through-fossil-fuels/
You feel like just a cog in the wheel of life just daily moving on?
Netflix movie…Nobody is really good!
(Caution: Russians get injured in this movie…)
Certainly is a hilarious show with lots of good violence…yummy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/01/world-now-wasting-1-trillion-or-more-per-year-investing-in-useless-renewables/
Polls show Europe’s electorates still broadly support net zero goals,…
I think I see the problem. I’ll put that in my You can ignore reality…but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality folder.
Burton,
I presume you have multiple sub files in that folder. Is it still a folder, or actually more like a filing cabinet?
Filing cabinet? Burton’s file has its own wing in his library, Gerry. ;o)
European turbulence – variations on a theme.
Just another variation on the stupid theme. I do not care how many people yap about my comments on their stupidity. they are still stupid and day after day they prove it.
“Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the face.” – Mike Tyson
It’s easy being Green, until you have to open YOUR OWN wallet.