{"id":414258,"date":"2025-11-22T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414258"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:22:56","slug":"wirtschaftlicher-selbstmord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414258","title":{"rendered":"Wirtschaftlicher Selbstmord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Post by<\/em><\/strong> Willis Eschenbach<\/a> (@weschenbach on X)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Germany 2025 is the engine room of European industry and the warning siren for anyone who thinks intellectual arrogance and green wishful thinking can outlast the laws of economics. In just six weeks, Germany lost another 125,000 industrial jobs; the grand total since 2019 is pushing a quarter-million\u2014out the door, out the country, or just vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s call it what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lifeblood of German industry\u2014cheap, reliable energy\u2014is gone. Years of shutting down nuclear, hamstringing coal, and then watching Russian gas evaporate left the country with electricity and gas prices double or triple those in the U.S. or Asia. Every boardroom spreadsheet in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, from chemicals to car parts, is stamped in big red letters: \u201cRelocate or Die.\u201d German executives are now eyeing Texas the way their fathers once eyed the Ruhr Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Auto manufacturing? The pride of the Mittelstand is now a jobs graveyard. Every week, a new headline: Volkswagen, Mercedes, Audi, and Ford\u2014all \u201ctransitioning\u201d entire factories to mothballs. It\u2019s not just EVs displacing gas engines; it\u2019s Chinese competitors eating Europe\u2019s lunch with cheaper electric cars, and German management teams suddenly realizing their \u201cgreen transition\u201d costs more than consumers or companies can pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s not just cars. Steel, banking, logistics, even machine tools\u2014the backbone sectors\u2014are slashing and burning in the face of runaway costs and toothless export numbers. American and Asian buyers are finding better deals elsewhere, while the German government continues its public hand-wringing and billion-euro \u201crelief budgets\u201d that do little more than slow the bleeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? In a few words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Insane domestic energy policy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • China and the U.S. playing chess while Berlin fumbles the checkers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • A green transition managed by committee, guaranteed to please nobody, and survive nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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    Companies are packing their R&D and production and heading to friendlier climates\u2014literally and figuratively. Want to build a battery gigafactory? Good luck. Bring your job ad to Detroit, Atlanta, or Warsaw and watch how fast the applications pile up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In Germany, you just watch the gas bill, the union rules, the electricity costs, and the regulatory forms pile up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The finance press and government quangos will blame \u201cAI\u201d and \u201cdigital transformation\u201d as if this is just progress marching on. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s conscious policy choices eviscerating decades of work. \u201cBroader industrial slowdown,\u201d<\/em> they say\u2014when what they mean is the core pillars of postwar Germany are quietly giving up and shipping off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The numbers are mind-boggling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Chemical and steel jobs down double digits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Automotive layoffs running in the tens of thousands just this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • A quarter-million high-value jobs gone since 2019\u2014many of them permanent, many never to return.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 125,000 job losses in the last six months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Adjusted for population size, that\u2019s as if in six months every single factory worker in North Carolina lost their job.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      All while headlines boast about the \u201cEnergiewende\u201d and \u201cgreen leadership\u201d\u2014right up until the next gas shortage, blackouts, or export collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In America, this would be headline news with cabinet meetings called in a panic and labor unrest on the streets. In Germany, it\u2019s just another week of polite consensus, wind-power pressers, and a government ready to add another \u20ac40 billion in promised \u201cenergy cuts\u201d for business\u2014which everyone knows will come far too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The Germans thought they could run a post-industrial society on hope, regulations, and a few clouds of solar panels\u2014but you can\u2019t repeal the laws of economics, any more than you can run a steel mill on good intentions. Now the bill is coming due.<\/p>\n\n\n

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      \"Solar<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

      People ask: Who killed German manufacturing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Answer: Look to the bureaucracy, the climate alarmists, the energy planners, and the eco-consultants. And remember:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Europe\u2019s lesson today is your problem, tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Sadly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      w.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      For Those New To The Site<\/strong>: When you comment, please quote the exact words you are referring to. While I can defend my words, I can\u2019t defend your interpretation of my words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Germany 2025 is the engine room of European industry and the warning siren for anyone who thinks intellectual arrogance and green wishful thinking can outlast the laws of economics. 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