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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (50 children)

As I suspected. Conservatism is the reason we can't have nice things. Again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck are you talking about? Did you even bother to read the article?

"The older activist generation deliberately rejected the mainstream expertise of the time, which then regarded centralised nuclear power as the future and mass deployment of distributed renewables as a pipe dream.

This earlier movement was instrumental in creating Germany’s Green Party—today the world’s most influential—which emerged in 1980 and first entered national government from 1998 to 2005 as junior partner to the Social Democrats. This “red-green” coalition banned new reactors, announced a shutdown of existing ones by 2022, and passed a raft of legislation supporting renewable energy.

That, in turn, turbocharged the national deployment of renewables, which ballooned from 6.3 percent of gross domestic electricity consumption in 2000 to 51.8 percent in 2023"

Ah yes, the arch-conservatives, the Greens and Social Democrats.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

The activism of 1975 is the conservatism of 2015.

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