Breaking news: "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in <insert_European_country> for the first time" for the 10th time this year.

Also on other unrelated news German economy is rocketing to the bottom, their industry is dying with thousands of layoffs, closing factories, and complains on energy prices and they can't even maintain their rail and road networks for the first time since forever. The signs of decline are not even signs anymore they are bright neon signs. But at least we are taxing cows farting. While china is steamrolling ahead and we are regulated to death by bureaucrats.

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alpineman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The continent is literally on fire due to global warming. Europe does not produce any fossil fuels and needs energy independence. It's because politicians dragged their feet for so long on net zero that we are even in this mess in the first place. Better now than never.

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detritus an hour ago | parent [-]

Europe doesn't produce any fossil fuels?

	▲	alpineman 28 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Effectively. Europe and the UK do, but there isn't much easily accessible left and besides they aren't in the EU. Netherlands has had to close their gas fields. Germany still mines some coal...there are probably a couple of other gas fields etc but the big picture is that Europe is highly dependent on imports.
	▲	frollogaston 5 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Russia and Norway do, but most of that is Russia

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zingar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What’s your point in relation to this article?

	▲	nxm 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		While achieving renewable "success", the domestic manufacturing industry has been decimated/made uncompetitive. Great news for China on the green success!

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valicord an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

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_Microft 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

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bad_username an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Even if the entire Germany stopped existing overnight, this would barely make a dent in global carbon emissions and planet destruction rate.

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hamboomger an hour ago | parent [-]

Okay. What is your solution, then? Except for giving up or downplaying the problem.

	▲	themaninthedark a minute ago \| parent [-]
		What is your solution to: >German economy is rocketing to the bottom, their industry is dying with thousands of layoffs, closing factories, and complains on energy prices and they can't even maintain their rail and road networks for the first time since forever. Except for downplaying the problems or saying they have to suffer?