Posted on 02/06/2022 9:39:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Germany, as we well know with its Russian gas capers, is a highly industrialized society in need of a lot of energy.
Fine and dandy. But how they get it presents increasingly bad options.
They got rid of their nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown after a big earthquake in Japan, (despite Germany not being in a quake zone), driving themselves to dependency on foreign suppliers. That's presented problems for them what with Russia filling that role, so their other recourse has been the one Joe Biden is touting for America: Green energy -- like wind and solar power.
It's costly, requiring state subsidization, given that Germany is not a big sunshine zone nor particularly windy:
But it's costlier than just the wasted cash. They also are now looking at the loss of their 1,000-year-old Reinhardswald old-growth forest -- known as the Grimm's Fairy Tale forest.
German authorities, completely ignoring German sentiment about forests, which is quite mystical, have decided to mow down the big one to get some wind power put in, in the name of 'going green.' Like the Central Valley of California, which has been turned brown and starved of water in the name of 'going green,' Germany is trashing its most beautiful forest in the name of 'going green.' Funny how that works.
Reinhardswald is known as the Grimm's Fairy Tale forest. In a weird conundrum (the Germans probably have a word for this) the greenie industrial complex has morphed into Rumplestiltskin, spinning wind into gold for the state of Hesse's bureaucrats but demanding Germany's first child as payment.
Don't get us wrong: We are all for progress. But to call this 'progress' is pretty disgusting. How is it 'progress' to trash Germany's 1,000-year-old irreplaceable forest?
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Wow!
We are closer to Idiocracy every day.
Maybe they will find Caesars eagles.
And not a word will come from the Greens.
Utter madness.
This is a special kind of stupid.
their Grün parti should disband...
So,,, to go green they cut down thousands of acres of green ?
And also removed a carbon capture ?
They are out of the liars closet now.
They aren’t eco green
They are commie red.
Yup. Didn’t Rush used to call them Watermelons? Green on the outside, but RED on the inside.
Western elites are certifiable retards.
Destructive for the greater good.
Weapons grade stupid.
Everything in Western Civilization is fake.
Thus Greens aren’t green. (They’re red)
..........wow, lets bulldoze 5 million acres so that we can create some wind!!!???
Good grief! And Germans are suppose to be “smart”.
Destructive for the perceived greater good.
The term “German blockhead” didn’t ’arise in a vacuum.
The left claims to love nature but they end up destroying it.
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