Greta Thunberg Lowers Germans With Hated Call to Keep Nuclear Power Plants Run – Rise for It?
Via P Gosselin on October 16, 2022
(Translated/edited by P. Gosselin)
Af Jan Ainali – still image from File: Greta Thunberg i Bryssel.webm, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75565690
German talk show host Sandra Maischberger interviewed climate activist Greta Thunberg in her native Sweden. The interview aired on Wednesday.
Many climate policy critics see 19-year-old Greta Thunberg as a puppet of interest groups who cannot have any motivation of their own due to her young age and lack of education. It’s worth noting, however, that she occasionally makes recommendations that can cause utter hatred, especially in Germany, between the Green circles and Fridays for the Future.
In 2019, Greta classified nuclear energy as a “small part of a new carbon-free energy solution” – even citing publications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
She was harshly criticized for this and avoided the subject for three years. Since the Greens began in the mid-1970s when people’s initiatives dispersed against nuclear power plants – which only later also turned to different aspects of nature conservation – Energy production from nuclear fission has been considered a high-risk technology, and not only among the left-wing educated bourgeoisie.
The fact that civilian use of nuclear power has resulted in far fewer deaths and injuries than, for example, modern transportation or conventional power generation, is often overlooked or deliberately ignored. notification. Therefore, the actual situation no longer plays a role here, but only its political utility.
However, Thunberg ventured again on the topic of nuclear power – albeit cautiously – and compared it to coal power, which is also incorrect. Verbal: “If they [the German nuclear plants] are active, I think it would be a mistake to close them and switch to coal. “
In the FfF circle, this can already be called courageous as Greta’s popularity is especially great in the rich and populous German-speaking countries, where the green-filled media environment has made Thunberg’s idolatry possible from the start. Besides Stockholm, Berlin is her main field of activity and here she is always well received and cared for.
From the point of view of the EIKE inclined reader, the above quote is of course the best short-term pragmatism, but it does not represent an attitude in favor of sustainable economic development and well-being. society. However, since Brussels redefined nuclear power as a “green” technology many months ago, it can be assumed that more and more parts of the FfF movement have also lost interest in misguided energy policy. of the German government. Perhaps in the near future, Greta will introduce new types of DFR reactors and breeders that are inherently safe, which are no longer called theoretical risks.
The fact that Greta was anointed to be an expert without any objective reason is now questionable from the point of view of nuclear power scorners.
Some in Berlin are trying to smear her point of view. Taz indicates approval of Greta .’s comment by CDU conservatives and FDP liberal democrats. Additionally, lobbyists like Eckart von Hirschhausen’s brother or Armin Simon are quoted:
“Greta Thunberg mistakenly suggested that nuclear power plants could help deal with the current gas crisis.” (Simon)
“Nuclear power cannot be a tool of climate policy”, (Hirschhausen, Scientists for the Future).
Totally wrong – the more grid-connected nuclear power plants there are, the more electricity is available and the cheaper energy is, that’s the old familiar market logic. And if more electrical power is available, less gas has to be burned to generate it, which benefits the food and metals industries that are threatened with bankruptcy. Hirschhausen is an economist and thus the opposite of Greta, an expert. How can an activist without a degree know more about economics than an economics professor?
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