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Germany, if you are going to have winter, make it a nuclear winter.
How to solve the NIMBY crisis.
Road to hell paved with good intentions
Politicians are a funny breed-what we dream of are great leaders with foresight to rejuvenate and improve our lives. What we pray and just hope for is that they don’t screw up too much, don’t send our children and grandchildren into crushing debt, don’t pollute our water and air for the sake of industry, don’t get involve in silly wars and, frankly, don’t embarass us too much.
We have a pretty low bar with politicians, though it does vary from country to country, with behaviour in one country being absolutely scandalous, while just shrugging shoulders in another.
With controversies in Greece, Italy, Austria, Poland, France and recently divorced UK, mother Merkel was the “glue of the EU”(trademark pending) and the general source of sanity in what was supposed to be Paradise lost, but ended up as Dante’s inferno-the bureaucracy of Brussels.
In 2011, in response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, Angela Merkel and her government decided to pivot away from nuclear power and to replace it with renewables.
Ironically, this lead to more dependence on Russian energy sources, primarily gas, enriched Russia and led to some unfortunate…
