Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Economic Disaster is Already Here - Peter Zeihan" video.

Very interesting comment. I'm an Australian engineer and I have worked with numerous German companies and their engineering people over the the last 30+ years. I've always seen the Germans as very pragmatic with technology yet that seems to have changed dramatically. I think what your suffering is from people so ideologically driven they will ignore common sense and reality. Both the Left and Right can doit easily. We see the American Right doing it now. A few years ago I heard how the Germans spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables to REDUCE emissions. The Greens then forced the closure of the nuclear power instead of the coal power. Instead of emissions going down they went up. Its insane for a Green party to chose higher emissions over reducing emissions and its a lot of emissions. Most of the worlds coal fired power stations are not only old they are also inefficient which means they pump out a lot more CO2 than newer technology. So the German Greens are either so ideologically driven they're blind to reality or they've been infiltrated. In Australia we've just started passing new environmental that might prevent every project unless they do not damage the environment. The problem is almost every human activity damages the environment in some way. Food production, cotton production, every metal we use including recycling does some sort of damage. The materials we make wind turbines and solar panels out of do some sort of damage. Almost everything we do, does some sort of environmental damage. I love that the Greens want to save the planet. I really do, but unless they are going to behave sensibly they have to start being practical. We need to turn the coal fired power stations off. We need to delay forcing electric cars until the infrastructure exists. We can save extraordinary amounts of energy with building efficiency like triple glazing all the office towers.
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@dohlecarnett1866 Well Germany did invest heavily in renewables. €1.3 trillion is the number I heard. But they didn't have the energy storage to go with it. Some of the detractors of what happened like Michael Schellenberger have also stupidly missed that the German engineers did learn from what happened. One thing they learned is that of you balance the wind and solar installations better you can save as much as 25% on what you need to install to replace the coal and nuclear that's turned off. That 25% can go into storage and that makes for an even better system. I find it frustrating that so little of this gets discussed, but then that's the big problem. All the vested interests including the Greens are so busy hoggin the microphone that the engineers never get heard. You are right to say its not just the Greens but they are a massive part of the problem because they wont compromise and help with planning the transition. Worst of all they wont listen to the engineers. The nuclear industry isn't much better. I'd slap them if I was allowed. But the coal industry is the worst by far.
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@dohlecarnett1866 Then who spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables? And who chose to shut down the German nuclear power stations?
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