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German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power (www.reuters.com)

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Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo... then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

German Wind Capacity

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[–] PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would we limit our hedging to non-world destroying scenarios? It seems we're already on track for a mass extinction event anyway. The reason you hedge is exactly for the worst case.

[–] Blake 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you serious? The reason I said that is because if we’re all fucking dead it doesn’t really matter what power plant we have because no one will be around to use it…

[–] PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes.