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[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

There's a huge anti-nuclear crowd

Which was grass-rooted by oil companies back in the 70s.

[-] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Source? Most if not all in “anti-nuclear crowd“ (in Germany) are also against the burning of fossil fuels. Instead they really like renewable energy like solar or wind. See the history of the German Green party for reference which was founded out of the anti-nuclear grass roots movement and they are also opposed to the burning of fossil fuels. I don‘t know if that‘s different in other countries.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah, yes, the German Green party which famously shut down nuclear plants in favor of...

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COAL plants

[-] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

This is simply not true. The shutdown of all nuclear plants (second attempt) has been decided by the CDU after Fukushima. The last government where the Greens were part of actually postponed the shutdown for a couple month because of the energy crisis cause by the war in Ukraine.

Germany also decided to shutdown all coal power plants until 2038. Yes, Germany has historically a lot of coal power plants, but the future is renewable. Let me remind you that my comment was in response to someone saying the oil industry started the grass roots anti-nuclear movement.

Here ist good chart of Germany‘s energy mix:

German energy mix

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-strompreis-gaspreis-erneuerbare-energien-ausbau

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Fukushima happened in early 2011. Your graph doesn't start until 2016. Sketchy af.

[-] ___qwertz___@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

After Fukushima, they decided to shutdown all plants until 2022. You can't just shutdown all plants overnight.

As the commentor pointed out, this was then later delayed to 2023 after the Russian attack on Ukraine.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

astroturfed. Because it's fake grass-roots.

[-] Jaycifer@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Wait, is that what astroturfing refers to?! That makes so much sense now.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I learned it after years of seeing it on reddit, because someone finally explained it lol

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