[thanatos519]

At this point 'cold turkey' would be like quitting cigarettes because you have stage 4 lung cancer.

Germany is not special. Every Western country is addicted to fossil fuels, because our economic system is built on unsustainable consumption. We have known for (at least) a generation that we must stop burning fossil fuels to prevent catastrophic climate change. If the system can't manage that, then I am not surprised that it can't turn off Russian gas to prevent genocide.

We could easily reduce our energy requirements (enough to defund Russia, but it's too late on the climate front!) by simply doing less non-essential stuff. Invest in local food security, health care, sustainable housing, and renewable energy ... and starve everything else.

... but since responsible, managed economic degrowth is capitalist heresy, here we are, paying Russia to holocaust* their neighbours while we burn their gas and seal our fate.

(*I first heard 'holocaust' used as a verb by Vitali Klitschko. This guy Englishes.)