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qwertox ◴[] No.45037882[source]
A country can commit to 300 years of wind energy, temporarily harming a bit of nature.

Once a better solution has been found, the land can be freed for the nature to take over again.

We have no issues with stealing a couple of square miles of nature in order to pave it for our cities or to use it for farming.

Once you remove the wind turbines, the harm you've done to the nature was minimal: production of the turbines, used area and generated noise, minimal pollution of the area, the troubles of recycling them. That's mostly it.

You don't have this with oil, nor with current-age nuclear.

Also, we've already accepted the noise of cars, trucks, motorcycles and planes.

So I really don't get what they are protesting about, specially in Germany.

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CalRobert ◴[] No.45038086[source]
Germany is famously abhorrent of change. "We've always done it this way" isn't used ironically.
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AlexandrB ◴[] No.45038225[source]
Unless the change is shutting down perfectly good nuclear power plants[1]. The energy transition in Germany has been handled horribly for reasons I can't understand.

[1] https://www.base.bund.de/en/nuclear-safety/nuclear-phase-out...

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1. arkh ◴[] No.45038767[source]
> The energy transition in Germany has been handled horribly for reasons I can't understand.

Former East German political agents still working for Russia.

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2. coliveira ◴[] No.45039142[source]
Hey, it was West Germany's idea to bring all these people. Now they cannot complain about this obvious and natural result. It is irrational to think that everyone there has the obligation to hate Russia just as the West does.
3. linksnapzz ◴[] No.45052456[source]
The lack of de-Stastification after reunification was at least as big a mistake as a lack of de-Nazification after '45 would've been.