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For All Their Vaunted Green Energy, the Germans Are Doing Some Strange and Contrary Things

There’s no hypocrite like a climate cult hypocrite, and the award for being the absolute masters of that sort of hypocrisy has to go to the Germans.

Part of the sticking point with many of the African and underdeveloped nations that want to do business with the EU is that the collective demands, say, Africa pretends it’s Europe. Third World farmers have to restrict their farming, logging, harvesting, fossil fuel, and fertilizer methods and usage to the draconian carbon emission standards set for those who live in the EU, or they cannot trade with the European market.





It’s a long-running complaint of my friend Jusper Machogu. The Holy Climate Rollers of Brussels have sliced through their own forests and depleted their own resources on the way to a wealthy and high standard of living, and spend their days denying other, less fortunate but resource-rich countries the right to develop their own native wealth.

All preaching in the name of ‘the climate.’

… Organic farming. Zero industries..a ton of greens and no meat for you, unless it’s lab grown. 

All of that for the climate!

Africans cook over dung fires, use donkeys or cattle for plowing (if they’re lucky), have no access to reliable electricity or clean water,  and use tiny oil lamps at night for light.

Two years ago, the endless royal decrees from Brussels were already chafing the leaders of countries from Asia, South America, and Africa.

…“We see a regulatory imperialism by the EU whereby Brussels sees itself as an exporter of rules to third countries — as the legislators of the world,” said Philippe De Baere, managing partner at law firm Van Bael & Bellis.





Those folks may well be justified in feeling smug as Europe and die-hard cultists watch the green experiment they have forced on everyone there fail, collapsing economies and their once enviable standard of living. 

And now, in hard-hit, self-abused Germany, once sacrosanct national areas are under assault in a desperate rush to both continue the madness and recover from it.

The magical trees that inspired legendary fairy tales in the Black Forest continue to fall for a wind farm of massive turbines

Deep in the woods that inspired the Brothers Grimm, past the tower from which Rapunzel threw down her hair and the castle in which Sleeping Beauty slumbered, lies a construction site that the far right has declared a crime against national soil and identity.

In this quiet corner of Germany’s “fairytale forest”, workers are clearing land and building access roads to erect 18 wind turbines.

The trucks rumbling through Reinhardswald have won the cautious backing of conservation groups, who consider the clean energy the turbines will generate a worthy trade-off for the 0.07% of forest they will physically occupy. But the project has divided local people and become a flashpoint for the far right, whose opposition to wind turbines has grown increasingly venomous in recent years.

And stripping the protective cover of verdant, lush, old growth forest is, besides an unholy abomination…?





Changing the local climate.

Approved by the Green Party: 240-meter-tall steel giants in Hesse’s last primeval forest. These large wind turbines are not only changing the landscape, but also the local climate. The forest is becoming warmer and drier – and this is all thanks to a technology that’s supposed to “save the climate.” Citizens’ initiatives have been protesting for years.

Today, this is what we call complete green success: vast cleared areas, highway-wide access roads for heavy goods vehicles, and cast reinforced concrete foundations in the middle of one of the last remaining contiguous forest areas. Wide swathes run like open wounds through the green thicket. Tree stumps rise from the ground like memorials. Today, heavy excavators, noisy bulldozers, and low-loaders rumble across an area once considered the core of the European Natura 2000 protected area.

We’re talking about the Reinhardswald forest in northern Hesse – once a tranquil forest wilderness, home to fairy tale characters from the Brothers Grimm – which is currently being transformed into a gigantic wind industry zone. Where once oaks and beeches stood, streams gurgled, and red kites and black storks lived, today crawler excavators and heavy bulldozers roll, tearing deep wounds into the forests. Trucks are transporting over 100,000 tons of gravel into the forests to build the foundations for the roads. Heavy, extra-wide low-loaders will later transport mast sections, rotor blades, and nacelles for the wind industry’s ridiculously large turbines. All in the name of the energy transition – and with the blessing of the Hessian Green Party.





So ‘green’ now.

By the way, this is the fairy tale forest of the Brothers Grimm (Reinhardswald in North Hesse), or rather, what’s left of it.

Now, 14 wind turbines, 240 meters tall, approved by the #Gruenen, will be built there.

For environmental protection and climate and such 

The trucks keep rumbling into the barren landscape that once held nightmares and dream creatures, like the Wolpertinger Ebola sent me.

Handsome little bugger, isn’t he? 

In German folklore, a Wolpertinger (German: [ˈvɔlpɐtɪŋɐ], also called Wolperdinger or Woiperdinger) is an animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany.[1]

It has a body comprising various animal parts – generally wings, antlers, a tail, and fangs; all attached to the body of a small mammal. The most widespread description portrays the Wolpertinger as having the head of a rabbit, the body of a squirrel, the antlers of a deer, and the wings and occasionally the legs of a pheasant.[3] No two Wolpertinger look alike because they are supposed the result of crossbreeding between animals in the area such as foxes, roebucks, hares, ducks, and pheasants.[4]

According to folklore, Wolpertingers can be found in the forests of Bavaria. The folklore states that Wolpertingers only show themselves to beautiful maidens on a full moon if they are taken into secluded parts of the Bavarian forests by the right man.[3][4][5]





Pretty soon, there won’t be any Wolpertinger habitat left, as Germany is that hard up for capacity.

Germany has also announced a surprising turnabout underwater, too. It seems they’ve decided they need a natural gas source that isn’t Russian, and they don’t care where they get it.

So much for conservation.

Germany Gives Go-Ahead for Gas Drilling in Protected Marine Zone

Germany has given the green light for drilling as much as 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas at a protected marine site in the North Sea in a controversial step to bolster energy security.

The cabinet approved a bilateral agreement with the Netherlands on hydrocarbon deposits off the island of Borkum, according to a statement from economy minister Katherina Reiche. Explorer One-Dyas BV had already received approval from local authorities a year ago, but Reiche’s predecessor Robert Habeck — a Green politician — had been delaying national approval due to environmental considerations.

And sure – why not tear up a pristine marine park to drill for natural gas when you could have easily fired up any or all of the fully functional and reliable nuclear plants you just closed.

It makes some sort of superior Teutonic sense, I guess.

I guess.

I don’t want any lectures out of them ever again about anything.







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