{"id":286153,"date":"2023-11-02T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=286153"},"modified":"2023-11-02T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:44:56","slug":"germanys-green-craze-is-expensive-destructive-useless-a-total-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=286153","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s \u201cGreen Craze\u201d Is \u201cExpensive, Destructive, Useless\u201d\u2026 A \u201cTotal Failure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The entire energy transition is a complete failure. Even with the redistribution of hundreds of billions of euros, more economic damage has been done than any benefit has been achieved. And yet we are extremely far from the so-called “climate targets” in terms of decarbonization. This has now also been noted by the financial news portal Bloomberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>31. October 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ARCHIV – Robert Habeck (B\u00fcndnis 90\/Die Gr\u00fcnen), Bundesminister f\u00fcr Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, besucht die Total Raffinerie Leuna. Foto: Jan Woitas\/dpa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Germans are already completely fed up and frustrated with the costly transition to green energies, and the target remains very far off.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Bloomberg calls it a \u201ctotal failure\u201d<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Green Party, has been called by many the most incompetent in modern German history. Public domain image.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s conservative Report 24 here<\/a> looks at the country\u2019s transition to renewable energies (die Energiewende<\/em>), which despite earlier high hopes has since turned into an economic debacle under the leadership of Economics Minister Robert Habeck (photo above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTotal failure\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe entire energy transition is a complete total failure. Even with the redistribution of hundreds of billions of euros, more economic damage has been done than any benefit  achieved. And still we are extremely far away from the so-called \u2018climate goals\u2019 in terms of decarbonization,\u201d so starts Report 24\u2019s analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Bloomberg confirms the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only has the German Energiewende<\/em> been exorbitantly expensive, but it has also brought very little in terms of actual decarbonization. Moreover, it has fueled inflation and demolished living standards for working Germans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been one giant wealth destruction machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Germans already frustrated, fed up <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven the financial news portal Bloomberg<\/a> states this total failure of politics, because the population simply does not want to carry these whole measures any more. A recent article by the portal discusses how the Green Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, has a strict focus on the \u2018climate targets,\u2019 but is still rigorously failing to achieve them,\u201d Report 24 continues. \u201cAt the same time, the economy is stumbling and frustration among citizens is growing steadily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The switch to predominantly unstable wind and sun as the primary source of electricity has also greatly magnified the risk of blackouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDoomed to failure\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGermany is thus impressively showing the world that the green craze is doomed to failure,\u201d writes Report 24.\u00a0 \u201cThe people of Germany do not want to sacrifice their quality of life and their jobs to some utopian goals that are in any case based only on ideological assumptions and incomplete data sets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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