As Chancellor Angela Merkel’s era comes to an end, Germany’s next coalition government has vowed to usher in a “climate revolution” ahead of its inauguration.
“Germany’s new coalition promises climate revolution,” the country’s state-run DW News reported on Friday.
The incoming coalition, made up of Social Democrats, Greens, and center-right Free Democrats, has agreed to set up a “super ministry” to push a climate agenda.
“A new ‘super’ Climate and Economy Ministry, to be headed by Habeck, is to provide the bureaucratic muscle to implement the ambitious measures,” the German broadcaster added.
By putting the economy under the purview of the ‘super climate ministry,’ Berlin is sending the signal that the globalist climate agenda comes before jobs or the nation’s economic wellbeing.
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party slammed the alliance for pushing a radical climate ideology.
The German “economy and prosperity will become completely subordinate” to “the green climate ideology,” the head of the opposition party, Tino Chrupalla, warned.
The DW News reported the post-Merkel government’s ambitious climate plans:
As Germany’s new coalition government — comprising center-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and the business-focused Free Democrat Party (FDP) — readies to take power, it has made bold climate policy the cornerstone of the alliance.
An agreement thrashed out by the three parties was released this week and includes climate measures designed to keep Germany “on the path to 1.5 degrees” Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), promised Robert Habeck, the Green Party co-chair and Germany’s likely next vice chancellor.
The measures include phasing out coal power by 2030, eight years ahead of the current schedule, powering 80% of the electricity grid with renewables within a decade and putting 15 million electric vehicles on German roads by 2030. The deal also proposes phasing out gas for power by 2040 and setting a minimum carbon price of €60 per ton ($68).
A new “super” Climate and Economy Ministry, to be headed by Habeck, is to provide the bureaucratic muscle to implement the ambitious measures.
The alliance, set to end Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign, will be a “progressive” one, the coalition parties declared in a 177-page agreement.
Germany’s next government, likely to be headed by Merkel’s socialist Deputy Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has promised even more liberal immigration policies.
The new government is “betting on [refugees] welcome culture,” Germany’s state-run ZDF reported. “It would now be easier for refugees to come to Germany,” the broadcaster cheered.
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Great ! Now all my relatives will be coming over from the Fatherland for Christmas to keep warm in front of my fireplace.
Yeah your whole nation having to rely upon Wild and Solar Energy thats real stupid idea that only a liberal screwball could come up with
Time to look in the mirror?
Regardless of one’s beliefs on climate change, why choose ideology over reason? Humanity’s energy choices are set by technical, economic and local factors with politics often the key. It is unequivocal that energy prices (constant dollars) have trended down over the last century to power global development. Succeeding Energy transitions have confirmed the iron law of Energy, wealth creation and development. Clean energy, Economy and Energy density all move up together, or not at all.
The failure of COP-26 was outdone only by the irony of a Europe in the throes of an energy crisis for weeks. The dreary, dead calm of Dankelflute, exposes the failure of intermittent energy to power and advance civilization. Global Primary Energy consumption remains at 83% Fossil Fuels in 2020, despite the trillions thrown at the Renewables since 1992.
NGOs in bed with Big Wind and Big Gas, have cajoled Democracies to embrace Wind and Solar to the detriment of the environment, their economies and security. Even Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans figured this one out. How hard can it be? It is time to remove the rent-seekers and bring the nuclear option forward.
Shutting down 8.54 gigawatts of nuclear power and shutting down all coal plants by 2030 can only work if Germany becomes a huge power sink buying much of its power from its neighbors. California imports 30% of its power but I suspect that Germany will have to import much more. As with California, this is only works if the neighbors have the extra power. Germany is almost certainly in for long blackouts. Perhaps Poland should go on an aggressive policy of building coal power plants so they can make money by selling power to Germany.
Makes as much sense as trying to end crime by disarming the Crime Victims but liberals are not much on Brains
Not many people know that Germany is subsidizing other economies in Europe, such as Poland. The current climate initiative by the new government will disable the German economy and they will no longer be able to subsidize other nations.