Sunday, 18 May 2025
First the bad news then the bad news
Chris Gattringer has a Brussels Signal piece for Ed Miliband. Worth reading because there is no way that Ed doesn't know about this entirely obvious problem.
Germany hits climate targets thanks to economic slump and abandoned power plants
As German experts announced the good news that the nation has reached its climate targets for 2024, attention has turned to the bad news – that achievement has come at the cost of trashing the economy and dismantling power plants.
The country’s five-member Expert Panel for Climate Issues, in a report presented on May 15, confirmed that Germany had emitted 649 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents less in 2024 than in 2023, a reduction by 3.4 per cent year-on-year...
Several observers reacted with ridicule to the report. Rainer Zitelmann, a libertarian author and entrepreneur, wrote on X: “Hooray! Germany achieves climate targets … in its third year of recession. The whole world will enthusiastically follow Germany’s green role model.”
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Fighting a war against the UK, France, Russia and America; then persecuting and murdering its Jewish businessmen, artists, and intellectuals; starting another war against the UK, America, and the Soviet Union; then inviting in millions of low-skilled and criminal migrants; then destroying the source of its economic success. The German reputation for efficiency is only based on Prussian militarism and fifty years of post-war economic prosperity. Virtually everything else the Dummkopfe have done has been self-destructive.
I know at least one country stupid enough to follow Germany's economic green model!
I swear someone draw a nice distinction. The Germans are not efficient, he said, but meticulous.
Sam - yes, the German reputation for efficiency doesn't take account of the wider, self-destructive picture. Difficult to shake off the efficiency image though, it has been sold to us steadily over many years. Ed Miliband may still believe Germany can pull off the sustainability miracle.
Tammly - so do I unfortunately!
dearieme - that's a nice distinction. It is possible to be meticulously stupid as our government continues to demonstrate.
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