Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mk89 9 days ago
Sure, SPD didn't have anything to do with it. Schröder and the Greens didn't have anything to do with it at all.

The Green party itself was literally born out of a protest against nuclear reactors in the 70's (Whyl).

CDU tried to slow down the phase out, but when Fukishima happened Merkel thought about staying in power rather than doing the right thing (= not shutting down the power plants).

I don't care about CDU, which as usual never misses a chance to disappoint, but not saying that the phase out was planned and executed by the Greens (and obviously SPD) is just factually wrong, because they initiated it all and implemented it. It wasn't just a draft, "let's see if it gets amended, etc..".

EDIT: I was talking just purely about energy and such reforms. The last 30 years have been ... to say the least... "weird" and short term.

Disabling a technology is a huge mistake, no matter what. No country did it the way it was done in Germany.