Politics, the State and Germany's Green Junta Against the People

 

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NoTricksZone has this interesting article about offshore windmills (with links to German TV reports):

I made these contributions to a thread of comments:

Georg Thomas 27. April 2018

I’ve watched another broadcast about this event on the same channel (starting at time mark 00:35, length a little over 6 minutes). What surprised me was the critical tone of the report — rather unusual in ideologically uniform Germany.
https://youtu.be/7B86NL7WfXM

jmdesp 27. April 2018

There’s much more opposition and scepticism about renewable in Germany that many people think. Unfortunetely when it comes to nuclear, Germans are indeed convinced it’s the worst thing ever, so that replacing them with coal plant is net positive in term of health.

Georg Thomas 27. April 2018

I agree with both of your points. At the same time my perception is that the media betray an almost complete bias in favour of the Energiewende. That’s why the report struck me as unusual. ARD and ZDF, still the favourites with the majority of the population, are propaganda tools of the state, churning out heaps of lies in favour of the Energiewende and green mythology in general. What makes me also furious is that my fellow-countrymen are so insensitive as to refer to these broadcasters as “Free TV” (“free tee vee”), when, in fact, ARD and ZDF are the only television channels enjoying government-enforced fees. I go to prison if I do not pay a substantial fee for “free tee vee”. So much for German double speak.

Georg Thomas 28. April 2018

jmdesp 27, you write: “There’s much more opposition and scepticism about renewable in Germany that many people think.” For most people most of the time the Energiewende is an abstract article of faith that they are conditioned to adopt thanks to being exposed to omnipresent and permanent propaganda. As is true of many so-called environmental concerns, people are not intimately involved, only vicariously as political consumers of the prevalent state ideology. The moment the Energiewende knocks on the door of their real lives, the moment the Energiewende becomes a matter of genuinely personal experience with a person’s concrete needs and interests at stake — as when a windmill is erected right next to your house dropping shredded storks into your garden — people are reminded of their real, thoroughly personal concerns and that’s when they become sceptical and start opposing the palpable detriments lurking behind the doctrinaire blabla, as you rightly note.