“Deutschland schafft sich ab”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared that Europe’s retreat from nuclear power had been “a strategic mistake.”
Also this week, Germany’s current Chancellor (Friedrich Merz) weighed in on this nuclear blunder when he called the reactor phase-out “a mistake” and said, “I regret this.”
Great. Then fix it!
But they’re not going to do that. Unfortunately for Germany, said the Chancellor, “it is the way it is, and we are now concentrating on the energy policy we have.”
Unbelievable.
The Most Expensive Science Lesson in European History
Germany is a fifteen-year case study in how terrible policies can weaken a country…
Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com,
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and triggered a massive tsunami that slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of the plant’s six reactors melted down, and it became the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
On the other side of the world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel panicked.
Her government had extended the operating lives of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors just five months earlier. But, because of the earthquake in Japan, Merkel reversed course overnight and mothballed eight German reactors.
But Merkel’s decision wasn’t really about natural disasters. It was political.
Merkel was terrified of Germany’s Green Party— which was literally founded on anti-nuclear activism in 1980 and had been gaining ground. A critical regional election was just two weeks away, and Merkel was hoping that she might pull out a victory if she killed the reactors.
Her gambit didn’t work, and the Greens won anyway.
But at that point the fate of nuclear had already been set in motion. Within three months, the German government decided to phase out EVERY nuclear reactor in the country.
Bear in mind that Germany’s 17 reactors were generating over a third of the country’s electricity… with zero carbon emissions. That’s a pretty good thing for a country obsessed with climate change. Continue reading Germany Puts Itself Out of Business






