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by kaesar14 1835 days ago
Counterpoint: If we cannot switch to those other kinds of renewables in a reasonable amount of time compared to Nuclear, we're leaving them with a way bigger clusterfuck in the form of runaway greenhouse gas driven global warming.
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Germany managed to get from 6% renewables in the energy mix in 2000 to 46% in 2020.

It is not impossible to get even faster buildout in the next ten years, all we need is politicians deciding to do so instead of giving billion dollar handouts to fossil fuel companies and actively impeding buildout!

Doesn't look like based on the graph in the top level comment of this post that made much of a difference at all.