The Environmental Parliament worked hard in Germany organizing and articulating the case against nuclear energy and the current anti-nuclear movement is paying large dividends.
The nuclear accident dividend we call it, because on the heels of the Fukushima nuclear melt down destruction in Japan and the electoral defeat of the conservatives in Germany due to their daft nuclear plant life extension law, we’ve now come to the crossroads.
And Germany now chooses to take the high road. The path of just renewable energy future…
For Germany now treads alone forward to the age of renewables. Because amongst the world’s leading wealthy industrialized nations it’s only Germany determined enough and self assured in it’s research and development as well as implementation of current PV, Solar thermal, wind, geothermal, wave & tidal technology; to abandon nuclear energy for good.
Abandoning nuclear is smart because of the technology’s inherent evils, accidental or intentional weaponization and catastrophic risks expressed over and over again in nuclear accidents across the globe.
Now Europe’s biggest economy and the fourth largest in the world — is betting it’s future and it’s trillions of Euros on expanding the use of renewable energies to meet its current and future energy needs.
Kudos. Well done Germany and especially a large Thank You to the Federal Minister for the Environment Dr. Norbert Röttgen.
We all support this transition to the benign and human friendly renewable Energy technologies and we’ll work feverishly to support it.
Truly the transition to Renewables was scheduled already before Fukushima and the giant anti-nuclear demonstrations these last weeks in Berlin, but it was supposed to happen slowly over the next 25 -50 years…
But now this move is rapidly accelerating in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster, with the imminent decision to shutter all nuclear reactors soonest, starting with the oldest ten plants.
Uncharacteristically, Chancellor Angela Merkel said the “Fukushima nuclear catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions” irreversibly marks the start of the new era of renewable energy away from nuclear and fossil fuels that can diminish life on this planet.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
There is a silver lining in every cloud…
