Enlarge / Jürgen Trittin, member of the German Bundestag and former setting minister, stands subsequent to an activist throughout an motion of the environmental group Greenpeace in entrance of the Brandenburg Gate in April 2023. The motion is to have a good time the shutdown of the final three German nuclear energy vegetation. (credit score: Christoph Soeder/Image Alliance by way of Getty Pictures)
One 12 months in the past, Germany took its final three nuclear energy stations offline. Relating to power, few occasions have baffled outsiders extra.
Within the face of local weather change, calls to expedite the transition away from fossil fuels, and an power disaster precipitated by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Berlin’s transfer to give up nuclear earlier than carbon-intensive power sources like coal has attracted important criticism. (Greta Thunberg prominently labeled it “a mistake.”)
This determination can solely be understood within the context of post-war socio-political developments in Germany, the place anti-nuclearism predated the general public local weather discourse.
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