For me, who lives in Germany and always thinks that the Germans have a good environmental awareness, it is quite remarkable that they have not yet switched off. But fortunately there are elections in September.
> But fortunately there are elections in September.
Laschet has time and again defended lignite ("Braunkohle" in german) and will probably become the next chancellor. Write an email to your local green party branch and ask how you can help!
German have terrible environmental awareness. They are irrationally anti nuclear to the point where they keep coal plants running long past the time they should have been stopped all for the sake of stopping nuclear power.
Switching to renewables is a laudable goal but the steps should have been phasing out coal first instead of nuclear first.
CDU is still popular. Germany might have a prominent green party but that is about it. It's only been in the last few years that other parties started caring about climate change. It's probably because the greens managed to sneak in a CO2 tax.
The CDU was pretty much the only one that wanted to keep nuclear with while near everyone else (except for AfD iirc) opposing them. By the time Fukushima happened the public sentiment and opposition was too strong for the CDU to keep attempting to push for nuclear.
Blaming them on this specific issue is just odd when they literally had the least fault out of everyone.
„As a result, environmental advocates have characterized lignite as the most harmful coal to human health.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignite
For me, who lives in Germany and always thinks that the Germans have a good environmental awareness, it is quite remarkable that they have not yet switched off. But fortunately there are elections in September.