It seems to be a weird complacency/delusion.
If they experience enough pain and for a persistent period of time, they might have a public awakening and start to reverse it. The big risk, however, is that experiencing a lot of pain can more easily go the other way towards extremism and disarray, with nobody able to get back on course.
I wouldn’t want to be the guy to turn the nuclear power plant back on again after it’s been sitting there kind of neglected for 5 years 😬
Or it is because of where in the german election cycle we are and politicians are trading short term pain (energy prices) for long term "green" credibility for the next Bundestags-elections in 2025, in hopes that energy prices go to an acceptable level and they can boast about how they even held on to their "green morals" in times of crisis.
The root/origin of that „green credibility“ however is irrational I agree.
I lived in Germany. Germans as a people are creepy af, like uncanny valley creepy. This doesn’t surprise me at all. There’s nothing they wouldn’t sacrifice for the ideology of the moment that gripped them, impelled to follow it to its logical conclusion.
how much does your infrastructure (and the skill of the workers needed to operate it) deteriorate while you wait for sense to win out? 🤨
