Climate change costs $16 million per hour in damage, mostly due to extreme weather events. Policymakers should use this data to allocate funds to help countries rebuild.

You’d think this would give us some wiggle money to play with to build out new energy infrastructure. You’re wrong though, there is no wiggle. We need all renewables like Germany.

Although the transition to EVs will require an enormous increase in base production capacity, it would be wasteful to build out nuclear to meet it.

$16m an hour might seem like a lot of damage, but nuclear can only exacerbate economic loss which is equally important as climatic loss.

Renewables now!

  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Aren’t they ahead of many other developed nations? Just because they’re not perfect or their journey isn’t complete doesn’t mean their progress isn’t worth taking inspiration from.

    • deranger@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      They send lots of lignite to Poland to get burned so they can dodge the emissions in their own country.

      Never seen those massive Bagger 288 excavators that can just annihilate a village to get at that sweet sweet lignite?

      Maybe they’re leading, maybe not, but emission still look to be going up - and they’re phasing out nuclear, a very shortsighted decision.

      energy-related CO2 emissions are set to increase by more than one percent as the country has increased the use of emission-intensive coal power in response to the war in Ukraine and phases out nuclear power, according to AGEB estimates.

      https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-2022-emissions-increase-slightly-despite-declining-energy-consumption