I avoid conspiracy theories, but the economic decisions of western governments appear to be adjusting for a significantly reduced population in the near future.
It’s as though they are readying for the planned sustenance of a mere remnant.
I sense a War coming on. When the economic devistation of the failure of the Euro happens..and the EU fails..plus continues Islamic takeover...the people of europe are going to start blaming each other......
The Germans should just withdraw from Germany and all move to France and Italy.
Why is everything going backwards? Humanity seems to be devolving on every front.
There are Lions, and there are Lemmings. The Lemmings vote, and in Germany, they vote to run off the cliff. The Democrats are ecstatic.
I don’t know if I would call it “suicide.” It’s sort of like suicide by smoking cigarettes. It’s a very long time before it will reach fruition, and in the meantime, they can change their minds. Right now, though, they are headed in a direction that will ultimately cause them economic pain, if not death.
And so darkness descends on Europe (again).
I’m glad the author has written this article about nuclear power in Germany. I was afraid no one was going to say anything about this incredibly stupid decision. The Japanese, who have more reason to be concerned, did not make a similar blunder. Nor the Chinese. Nor the French. The Germans have been so good a policy in this hideous Great Recession. Now they’re going to blow it all?
This analysis fars fall below what I’ve come to expect from writers in the American Thinker.
To compare Merkel to Obama on any meaningful level is just plain stupid.
Moreover, this author is writing in complete ignorance of the sociological “meaning” of nukes in Germany, in particular, and Europe, in general. There is a long-standing, entrenched, powerful FEAR of all-things-nuclear that absolutely pervades the German public.
Yes, the German public did consent to nuclear power plants, but their relationship with nuclear has never been anywhere near comfortable.
This is a relatively small country, with a lot of people crowded into its regions. Nuclear power plants are never really in “someone else’s backyard” as far as Germans are concerned.
Further, like all of Europe, the German public in general leans more toward the radical environmentalist view of all energy sources. Again, this makes for a highly reluctant relationship with nuclear from the get-go.
The bottom line is that, while the German government may have acted too quickly, and, indeed, overreacted, under all the circumstances, there’s no way this author’s essential charge of political pandering and cowardice is well-founded.
Merkel is one of the grown-ups on the world stage. Those that write about her political decisions should have some understanding of the domestic zeitgeist she has to deal with.
...eh...2022...that’s alot of Winter’s to live through. Once power bills goes up, people may have a change of heart. And that phase out date may be extended beyond 2022.