Wednesday, February 6, 2019

German plastic bottles

On German television on Monday evening environment minister Svenja Schulze said that Germany produces one billion plastic bottles annually.

The Germans have decided to stop mining coal and generating electricity from coal in 2038.

2 comments:

Andreas said...

The Wall Street Journal calls it the 'World’s Dumbest Energy Policy':
https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11548807424?ns=prod/accounts-wsj

Germany is cutting the brench which it sits on.
"Deutschland schafft sich ab!"

Francis Hunt said...

The phrase "Deutschland schafft sich ab" was used by Thilo Sarrazin in 2010 as the title for a book which was the first successful attempt to bring toxic popularist themes, like hostility to migrants, Islamophobia, blanket slamming of 'elites', etc., into the mainstream of public discourse in Germany. It's a very dangerous meme.

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