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I wish the Greens in my country weren't so utterly useless and simping of Russia.
Be careful what you wish for, the German Greens ditched a good part of their climate policy, they even approved of strip mining away a whole village for brown coal.
In 2023, when Putin shut down gas supply to Germany and Germany needed coal to preserve gas. Also the deal included half of Germanys brown coal power plants to be shut down by 2030, which was all the plants of the company strip mining. Also the village was bought out by the coal company years before the Greens gave the permit to have it demolished.
Just thought the context really matters in this case.
The additional coal from destroying that village wasn't needed for domestic energy supply but for energy export, AKA the coal company's profits. Just thought that the context matters in this case.
Mainly to France, which otherwise would have increased its gas consumption.
And gas is still a lot cleaner than brown coal.
True, they are far from perfect.
But the Greens where I am are against things like building new solar/wind farms, and against infrastructure that connects this renewable energy stuff to the grid. They're against building any new houses.
They're just a NIMBY party cashing in on people thinking they're actually green.
The German Greens do have enough NIMBYs, too, who at times will happily confuse small localised protection of two stalks of grass with protection of the climate.