“The Germans treat ecological stewardship like a religion. It’s a moral law. They look at us like the imams look at us, with a superior moral eye.”
I interviewed with a Canadian company doing 50% of their business in Europe. The interviewer, a Director, said, “All you have to do in Germany is put the word ‘green’ on your proposal and they fall all over themselves buying it.”
Now, their product truly was energy efficient but, gosh...
The Germans are wonderful. They are good at whatever they take on. Wherever I have something that says Made in Germany or in West Germany I have a treasure, and I do - dishes kitchen gadgets, religious art- statues prints of guardian angels from the twenties.
The Germans have the best food, they like to party and they are witty and fun.
And they are superior in recycling and energy efficiency.
They have little villages separated by land for sheep grazing, walking, hunting. And their trains do run on time.
Their architecture is serious. Some of the homes in the villages, which are old, go back 200 years. The villages date to the middle ages.
And their beautiful churches are empty. Vacant. Protestant and Catholic.
And they devote themselves to the ecology in its place.
They talk about it, judge character by it, obey all its rules like they’re praying.