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Re:Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the f... by toomuchtodo on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:55PM (#49158366)
They could've, but people and politics are hard and they didn't. It is what it is, can't change the past. We win or we learn.
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Re:Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the f... by suddenlybananas on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:58PM (#49158405)
That kind of fatalism could apply to literally any idiotic policy. The German government knew what they were doing when they made that choice.
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Re:Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the f... by looperhacks on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:02PM (#49158477)
"You can't change the past" really isn't fatalism
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Re:Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the f... by RandomLensman on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:08PM (#49158586)
You think voters had no role there? I don't see nuclear power enjoying some constitutional protection as such, so choosing against it seems ok.
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