Germany to raze a 1,000-year-old forest
in the name of 'going green'
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
2/6/2022 8:42:39 AM
Germany, as we well know with its Russian gas capers, is a highly industrialized society in need of a lot of energy.
Fine and dandy. But how they get it presents increasingly bad options.
They got rid of their nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown after a big earthquake in Japan, (despite Germany not being in a quake zone), driving themselves to dependency on foreign suppliers. That's presented problems for them what with Russia filling that role, so their other recourse has been the one Joe Biden is touting for America: Green energy -- like wind and solar power.
It's costly, requiring state subsidization,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/6/2022 8:56:30 AM (No. 1063276)
I'm not a greenie, but this is a crime against nature.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/6/2022 9:00:12 AM (No. 1063278)
This is almost beyond belief. Of course, the green movement actors were never acting for the environment- that was their smoke screen - it was always money and power. Now The Gullibles are entirely unable to correlate today’s events with those of yesterday. They are in such a rage they only remember the object of their rage. They don’t even know that they are awaiting instructions as to what the next object of rage will be.
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It's what socialists/communists/central planners of all types do. They destroy the environment in the name of protecting it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mobyclik 2/6/2022 9:11:52 AM (No. 1063288)
In reality #3, they destroy EVERYTHING they touch.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 2/6/2022 9:33:16 AM (No. 1063303)
In the Mojave Desert, vast tracts of 'precious desert ecosystem' have been sacrificed for wind and solar farms. A couple of decades before, every greenie in the state, including Feinstein, were crying about the destruction of desert lands. Instead of earth day celebrations, there should be a national 'Hypocrites on Parade' day!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
joew9 2/6/2022 9:50:44 AM (No. 1063333)
Some back of the napkin calculations and I suggest that they could go completely solar if they put solar panels and batteries on about 1/3 to 1/2 of their land. They would likely have to import food since there wouldn't be enough farming land left but maybe they could import food from China or Russia.
The US could do the same with only about 1/5 of our land.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/6/2022 10:24:00 AM (No. 1063375)
People are fascinated by the vague disconnected prophecies of Nostrodamus
when theg should pay attention to the more recent and accurate prophesies and observations of H.L. Mencken
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 2/6/2022 11:03:17 AM (No. 1063420)
This senseless destruction is astonishing. When I was stationed in West Germany for two years (50 plus years ago) I admired how well West Germany took such tender, loving care of its wonderful (almost mystical) forests. I'm saddened by this ignorant, irreversible stupidity.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/6/2022 11:08:09 AM (No. 1063424)
The area units are confusing. Clearing 20 million square meters....I did the conversion and this is about 7.7 square miles. So and area roughly 2 miles by 4 miles....pretty large swath of forest to be sacrificed for those damned worthless, ugly, bird and bat killing windmills.
And a lot of habitat for animals gone, in addition to all the flying ones who will be killed by the blades.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/6/2022 11:34:12 AM (No. 1063480)
A beautiful young princess - - and several very small men - - were seen packing all their belonging into a U-Haul truck - - and abandoning their forest home.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
curious1 2/6/2022 11:35:59 AM (No. 1063484)
They could put in a modern nuke plant and only take up 10% of the space, if they just have to have the power plant right there. Otherwise, put a couple nuke plants in some mountainous, non-fertile place and leave the forest alone. That would be a win-win for the German people.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/6/2022 11:48:55 AM (No. 1063503)
There is a world of difference between the green movement and environmentalism. Don't ever confuse the two. The green movement could care less about land preservation.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/6/2022 12:06:29 PM (No. 1063511)
Like the windmills in their minds..,,,
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 2/6/2022 12:21:48 PM (No. 1063530)
To #8, I couldn't agree with you more. I was there as a child & it was just lovely, surreal, evoked such imagination, truly wonderful. I pray the protests are successful. God, what a world, heartbreaking.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 2/6/2022 12:27:34 PM (No. 1063534)
The beautiful plaines of northern Iowa and So. Minnesota have been forever ruined with monstrous windmills! All of which seem to sit idle every-time we drive by them! Idiots!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 2/6/2022 12:38:04 PM (No. 1063543)
We want to be green, so we are destroying the green?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SALady 2/6/2022 1:03:16 PM (No. 1063582)
The first thing lie-berals do when they gain power is to greatly limit the study of history.
Of course, if they did study history, they would know that one of the main reasons that both Germany and Japan lost in WW-II was that they did not have dependable sources of oil and natural gas. They had to get it from areas that they conquered. And as they lost more and more of the sphere of influence as the war went on, that lack of domestic energy production just sped up their inevitable losses.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 2/6/2022 1:05:57 PM (No. 1063586)
The whole idea is so stupid, it sounds as if Bevis and Butthead came up with the idea.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 2/6/2022 1:22:22 PM (No. 1063604)
Now waiting for California to destroy the redwood and sequoia Forrest and put up wind farms.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
swarfer 2/6/2022 1:39:04 PM (No. 1063629)
This is so unbelievable it could only be concocted by EU liberals. I don't think even the most backward third world country would be willing to sacrifice a showpiece ecosystem for some wind turbines. Green at any cost shows the insanity of the green left. There are options but they no longer want to discuss them. Their minds are made up, wind turbines or nothing, forget the consequences.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/6/2022 2:20:31 PM (No. 1063678)
I live in South Georgia, which is largely Owned by Georgia Pacific. Its where your writing and toilet paper gets its start. I ran the numbers. Germany is clearing 7.75 square miles. Which by Georgia standards isn't much. I looked into it further. The Reinhardswald is about 70 square miles. So.....they are going to level 1/10th of the forest. That is a crime.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Mike22 2/6/2022 4:20:13 PM (No. 1063757)
A stupid response to an event that was the result of human stupidity. The Fukushima plant did melt down. The press reports implied that the Fukushima "melt down" killed 10,000 people. The plant failure did not kill anyone. The tsunami did. The plant itself did not fail. The reactor shut down as designed. Power was lost. The emergency generators took over and functioned as designed. Then the tsunami swept in and disabled the emergency power supplies and further damaged the electrical grid. Then over time the plant overheated, "melted down" and released radioactivity. The plant was located inside a known tsunami zone (rocks had been inscribed and placed over the CENTURIES denoting the extent of various tsunamis). The emergency generating equipment was located at ground level in a known tsunami zone and was swept away. The US navy volunteered the use of available equipment to restore the damaged emergency generation.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Mike22 2/6/2022 4:38:31 PM (No. 1063767)
Reportedly, the US administration wanted the Japanese to agree to permanently shut the plant down and the Japanese refused. The overheating continued and the containment failed. Again, a big wall of water sweeping in from the ocean (in a location known for frequent tsunamis) damaged the emergency power system and killed 10,000 people. It appears the containment withstood the waves. Ground level emergency generating equipment did not.
A nuclear power plant requires some intelligence involved in plant siting and design. This was apparently absent. Since very heavy duty construction was required for containment, why not site the emergency equipment above the inundation zone - perhaps on top of the massive containment structures above the likely reach of the waves in this known tsunami zone? I have worked various jobs where the equipment I was supporting had to work. Otherwise people could/would die. We had frequent exercises where we brainstormed various ways mother nature or human actors could take us out. We gamed all sorts of disasters. Throw in an asteroid strike, a 90 percent mortality rate epidemic or zombie apocalypse or combination just for fun. Tsunamis at that location were an obvious risk.
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