This. Plus the fact that it would have been politically absolutely infeasible to get anyone except the Greens to agree on a coal before nuclear phase out at any point until at least 2018. SPD, CDU especially were and are very close to to the coal industry (voters, company boards, etc.).

In addition, without the Greens-pushed and initiated renewables subsidies, there would have been basically no big market worldwide for solar manufacturing to even be built out the way it was and all solar tech and industrialization would likely not be as good as it is now.

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myk9001 a day ago | parent [-]

> ... Greens-pushed and initiated renewables subsidies, there would have been basically no big market worldwide for solar...

Are you referring specifically to a German political party?

Because that's a lot of credit to attribute to a single party in a single country.

It might be well deserved, but seeing some supporting data would be nice.

	▲	k_g_b_ a day ago \| parent [-]
		https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap... The only other even slightly comparable country is Spain and they don't start until 2006/7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source... where the laws that kick-started that. Under a SPD-Greens government - it wouldn't have happened with the conservatives or (market) liberals, that's clear.