... which are the most efficient way to wean us off of Russian gas. The Greens have pushed for years now to get rid of fossil fuel dependencies, turns out they did have a point all those decades.
Nuclear has been replaced many years ago by renewables in Germany. Stop spreading Michael Shillenbergers propaganda.
Germany doesn't need nuclear the same way they don't need Russian gas anymore. You should all cheer for the Greens and for their foresight towards the end of the 90s when they pushed for renewables. Germany would still be struggling without them and Putin's gas if it hadn't been for their push for renewables.
To summarize:
> The anti-nuclear protests were also a driving force of the green movement in Germany, from which the party The Greens evolved. When they first came to power in the Schröder administration of 1998 they achieved their major political goal for which they had fought for 20 years: abandoning nuclear energy in Germany. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germa...
The Greens were always against nuclear. It's hypocritical to blame Merkel government as the phase out was planned decades before, Merkel initially wanted to delay it but was faced with protest and backlash from Greens.
Renewables drastically expanded in Germany but if you look at the evolution of German energy matrix you will see that renewables mostly coupled with increased energy demand while nuclear phase out came at a cost of increased usage and reliance on natural gas which naturally comes from Russia.
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
It's no surprise that:
> After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Schröder was criticized for his policies towards Vladimir Putin's government, his work for Russian state-owned companies, and his lobbying on behalf of Russia. On 1 March 2022, Schröder's entire staff including long-time office manager Albrecht Funk resigned due to Schröder's alliances with Russia and Putin directly. On 8 March 2022 the Public Prosecutor General initiated proceedings related to accusations against Schröder of complicity in crimes against humanity due to his role in Russian state-owned corporations. The CDU/CSU group demanded that Schröder be included in the European Union sanctions against individuals with ties to the Russian government. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der
It had it replaced years ago with clean renewables you don't have to greenwash first in the same EU committees because your own taxpayer money can't come up with the subsidies required to keep it up, as Nuclear-France did.
