German Emissions From Electricity Rose 25% In First Half Of 2021 Due To The Lack Of Wind Power, Not Willpower

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Renewable energy supporters champion this vision for Germany.
58% : It's true there was a slight increase in solar power generation, wind was abnormally high in 2020, and things could improve next year.
53% : "Germany "is helping construct a European Union meant to supplant the German government in many of its traditional competencies," wrote Christopher Caldwell in The New York Times in 2019.
52% : Its core findings were reinforced by a 2010 book, Energy and the Industrial Revolution, by an Oxford historian, which used the same method of physical calculations to show that, without coal, the industrial revolution could not have happened.
50% : Meanwhile, Germany is closing nuclear plants this year and next, which will result in more use of coal and natural gas, and thus increase carbon emissions.
50% : In 1982, a German historian named Rolf Peter Sieferle wrote a book, The Subterranean Forest, which proved, using physical heat measurements, that the industrial revolution in Europe during the 17th and 18th Centuries could not have occurred without coal.

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