{"id":253589,"date":"2023-04-18T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253589"},"modified":"2023-04-18T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:28:16","slug":"ordinary-germans-will-pay-a-heavy-price-for-the-anti-nuclear-lunacy-of-their-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253589","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary\u00a0Germans\u00a0Will\u00a0Pay\u00a0a\u00a0Heavy\u00a0Price\u00a0for the\u00a0Anti-Nuclear\u00a0\u201cLunacy\u201d of Their Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From THE DAILY SCEPTIC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0IAN MACLEOD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ESSENBACH, GERMANY – AUGUST 04: The Isar nuclear power plant is pictured on August 4, 2022 in Essenbach, Germany. The leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, and Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder are arguing for extending the operational life of the Isar 2 reactor beyond its scheduled closing at the end of this year in order to help Germany mitigate the effects of the current reduction of natural gas supplies by Russia. Russia, likely in response to Germany’s support of Ukraine, has dropped the supply of gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to 20%. The German government is seeking to avoid expected energy shortfalls, especially this coming winter, and Chancellor Scholz yesterday said he is considering allowing Germany’s three remaining nuclear reactors to run longer than currently scheduled. (Photo by Lennart Preiss\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s last three nuclear power reactors were shut down this weekend. Supporters of the anti-nuclear movement cheered. Many others \u2013 including some in the media and voters who worry about the environment \u2013 fear that the decision will only worsen Germany\u2019s energy crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabine Beppler-Spahl argues <\/a>in Spiked<\/em> that it is ordinary Germans who will suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A culture of fear has driven Germany\u2019s anti-nuclear movement since its inception in the mid-1970s. In its early days, it was a radical opposition movement, largely at the fringes of society. Its demonstrations were often met with massive police force. At one demo in 1986, in the German village of Wackersdorf<\/a>, several protesters, and one police officer, were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public mood started to change after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, also in 1986. But the German government continued to back nuclear power in the years following the accident. Then Chancellor Helmut Kohl argued that a highly industrialised country like Germany couldn\u2019t survive without it. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time [then Chancellor Angela] Merkel announced the phaseout, the anti-nuclear movement had become mainstream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No party opposed her move (the populist and pro-nuclear\u00a0AfD<\/em>\u00a0had not yet been founded). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her decision was applauded by the media elites, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the former boss of Siemens, Peter L\u00f6scher, toed the line, welcoming Merkel\u2019s plan to replace nuclear power with renewables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So strong was the groupthink in Germany that sceptics of Merkel\u2019s plan were often isolated and ridiculed. Nuclear engineers saw no future in Germany,\u00a0university departments<\/a>\u00a0for nuclear sciences began to close down, and many of Germany\u2019s best engineers went to Canada or the US. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key question of course is why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is the Government abandoning a cheap, clean and reliable source of energy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why is it instead betting on unreliable renewable energy, which will make Germany dependent on favourable weather conditions and will raise energy prices even further?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer lies in the power of Germany\u2019s green movement, which gave birth to the Green Party, currently the junior coalition partner in Olaf Scholz\u2019s Government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decades-long fight against nuclear power is driven largely by its anti-growth ideology \u2013 an ideology that has spread to the establishment more broadly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his part, Scholz has only one interest \u2013 keeping his weak coalition together. He has sacrificed a once formidable industry to green ideology and party politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price of this fiasco will inevitably be paid by the German people. A backlash to the green dogma that brought us here is long overdue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The price of this fiasco will inevitably be paid by the German people. A backlash to the green dogma that brought us here is long overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":253593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818672,691818673,691818677,691818674,691818675,691818206,691818676],"class_list":{"0":"post-253589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-gernmany","10":"tag-green-ideology","11":"tag-media-elites","12":"tag-merkel","13":"tag-nuclear-power","14":"tag-olaf-scholzs-government","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0screen-0.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-13Y9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":217643,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=217643","url_meta":{"origin":253589,"position":0},"title":"Bitter Reality: Unreliable Renewables Will See Germans Freezing in the Dark This Winter","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Germany set the tone by squandering billions of euros on subsidies to wind and solar, trashing their forests and rural heartland, as well as their hitherto reliable and affordable power supply.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-332.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-332.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-332.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-332.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-332.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":266251,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=266251","url_meta":{"origin":253589,"position":1},"title":"Nuclear Phaseout, Green Energy Transition Causing German Industry And Power Production To Leave","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"So where can Germany get its power from? 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