If the last German nuclear reactors are now shut down, the Greens are concerned with Robert Habeck - against all reason - above all, presenting a victory trophy.
A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.
Climate Minister Habeck said recently that he thinks the continued operation of the nuclear reactors is "okay" - in the Ukraine.
His reasoning was interesting: "The things" are after all "built" and they run "safely".
One rubs one's eyes: Didn't Habeck's Greens persuade the Germans for decades that nuclear power was a "high-risk technology", uncontrollable, irresponsible?
If Habeck already considers the kilns in the Ukraine to be safe – how much more should that apply to the much more modern German ones?
Anyone who asks for logic or reason in the nuclear debate has already lost
But anyone who asks for logic or reason in the nuclear debate has already lost: For decades, the Greens have been spreading "German Angst" and marketing their favorite campaign hit profitably.
Now it's a matter of presenting the most powerful victory trophy to one's own clientele, against which even the whole heating annoyance pales, for which Habeck had to play the man of pain at the traffic light for weeks: On Saturday the generation of nuclear power in Germany will end, presumably forever.
While other countries are intensively researching new nuclear technologies to achieve decarbonization, Germany is getting out.
The debate initiated by the FDP about a reserve operation of the last three miles is a liberal rearguard action, which only serves to save face for the FDP and is intended to protect them from the anger of their voters.
The foolish phase-out of nuclear power is, it's true, a joint German effort.
But it is his point in time, defended tooth and nail by the Greens in the midst of a serious energy and climate crisis, that turns unreasonableness into stupidity.
Habeck and Co. would rather let the charcoal piles blow CO2 into the atmosphere at full load, prefer the citizens to pay, prefer the industry to go, than let their triumph be taken away from them now.
And again the world looks at Germany in disbelief.
George Anastasiadis