Dissonance in the Green Valhalla: German Workers Break the Climate Silence

American Thinker ^ | 15 Jul, 2025 | Thomas Kolbe

[MtnClimber]

A group of German industrial labor representatives has broken ranks. In an open letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, they fiercely criticize Berlin’s climate policy. Will their defiance ignite a firestorm -- or vanish in the memory hole crafted by media gatekeepers?

I must admit: after years of bitter disappointment in the fight for rational energy discourse, I view initiatives like this with cautious pessimism. In Germany, climate policy has become the domain of a paternalistic triad -- politics, media, and public compliance. The first casualty? Open debate. The air is thick with passive-aggressive apocalypse. Criticizing the Green Deal is a near-taboo. No historical precedent comes to mind where a nation, fully conscious, impales itself economically in slow motion.

Calm Before the Storm?

In the U.S., the climate machinery may be in retreat under Trump. But in the EU, the climate cartel, and its beneficiaries remain in full control -- despite recession and public despair.

Germany has paid the highest price in this climate crusade. Its forced transition to renewables -- while banning nuclear energy -- might still be hailed as “civilizational progress” in eco-parasitic enclaves like Berlin. But out in the real world, where productive citizens depend on affordable energy and mobility, the mood has soured. The party’s over. And the pressure’s building.

Now, at last, some are speaking up. A group of industrial works councils is calling on Chancellor Merz to halt the climate policy suicide run. Since COVID lockdowns, over 300,000 jobs in Germany’s industrial core have vanished. Energy-intensive production has become a fantasy -- especially when competitors like the U.S. pay up to 75% less for electricity.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: greenenergy

[MtnClimber]

Between the muslim migrants and the “green energy” I think Germany is doomed to fail.

[AppyPappy]

Destroying their country over a national cult

[DeplorablePaul]

The problem with green energy doomsday is the same as global warming predictions, it never comes. High prices is a symptom but not a collapse.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[House Atreides]

The Netherlands is apparently now going down the same stupid “beggar our native citizens” approach pioneered by the German “elite”.

[SomeCallMeTim]

They are well down that road already.

[Moltke]

For decades the trade unions have been marching arm in arm with the left and greens on climate and immigration. I wouldn’t trust them at all.

But the labor groups named in the article all do seem to come from the eastern (former GDR) states - the people there are heavily in the AfD camp and have more common sense left than too many in the western states. Many remember communist rule and are suprised to find themselves in the same position again. They are royally pi$$ed off.