alt Hacker NewsWell point is that Germany's CO2 emissions could be the same as in France had they not stopped building nuclear plants in the 80s and 90s. Obviously the psychosis amongst environmentalists who were hellbent on maximizing CO2 emissions (in addition to Germans electing a Russian agent to lead their country in 1998) was just one of the factors.
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ViewTrick1002 • today at 12:35 PM
Which is crying over spilled milk. We live in 2026.
Today renewables and storage are the cheapest energy source in human history, and is reshaping the global energy system.
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Germany has the same CO2 per capita today as France at the height of their nuclear generation, which was back in 2005.
Germany also reduced theirs more than France since that point. And grown per capita GDP faster from a higher start.
Nuclear appears to be a distraction, it's not even visible on a graph of Germany's GHG emissions.