The Greens seem irrelevant and selfish

The use of nuclear power requires difficult considerations from politics and society. The hope for more security of supply is offset by French supply problems due to the reactors being idle. A significant reduction in CO2 emissions collides with the unresolved issue of nuclear waste. And there are always new questions to be asked about operational safety.

One of the bad responses to this is that if Russia invades Ukraine and Putin uses fossil fuels as economic weapons, we have always been opposed to nuclear power and therefore need not reconsider. Green ministers seem to have given themselves and their officials that bad answer when they were thinking about longer operating times for the remaining nuclear power plants in the spring.

There is much to suggest that the examination of this question in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Environment was not carried out with an open mind and not based on all available assessments, but was largely determined by the already established determination to protect green biographies and the core of the party DNA.

This makes the Greens, who in the current crisis are unselfishly firm in their principles with their clear positioning in favor of Ukraine, at the same time appear petty, selfish and irrelevant. Anyone who does not listen to and weigh up all rational arguments before a re-examination, which is forced by an acute emergency, is not behaving rationally.

It will be interesting to see what Robert Habeck and Steffi Lemke want to do to appear rational again on this point. The subject of nuclear power will continue to provide them with opportunities to do so. Because if the burning of fossil fuels, for example in heat generation or in transport, is correctly replaced by electrical energy in order to protect the climate, then the question remains acute as to whether the huge additional electricity requirement can actually be covered without nuclear power.

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