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And yet, despite multiple attempts by those on the political right to slow it down, they've powered ahead with reducing coal and gas usage.

Some of those critics focus on nuclear (Like AfD: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/populist-afd-sand-gears...) and some of those pretend to be angry about the slowness of Germanys transition but it doesn't really add up to anyone who pays attention to the local facts. It's just a meme to get people angry at the left and/or environmentalists, while the right openly and continually sabotage progress.



Opposition to nuclear is 90% a "left" wing problem. Blaming the boogeyman "right" is silly in general, as left-right is a thought-terminating scale, but really silly in this case where it actually is pretty clear-cut.

Greenpeace did great work on the peace front, but wrecked 50 years of carbon progress on the nuclear power front.


> Opposition to nuclear is 90% a "left" wing problem. Blaming the boogeyman "right" is silly in general

The "left" (by your definition) also opposes fossil fuels but we're nowhere near eliminating those. Why haven't they succeeded?

Surely mere "opposition" isn't enough.


Why all the asinine “atomkraft? Nein danke!” Signs? The policy seems designed by 70 year old hippies.




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