Oh please, Germany is Germany. Everything happens there as it should happen, logically, consistently and reasonably. But after dreaming this, we soon wake up. Too bad the Germans don't.

The German "green lobby" is swimming in euphoria, since they finally got rid of their last three nuclear power plants. So there is something to celebrate, since this step is - as a green activist put it: progress in environmental protection as well.

Yes, it may be progress, but not all progress is salutary. Because if, say, someone stands on the very edge of the abyss and steps forward...isn't that so pleasant?

Because what a step forward it is to close clean energy producing units and open lignite mines instead, even at the price of flattening some settlements.

What's in it for the greens? After all, they are not bulldozing their houses out from under them, they are not being evicted from their homes.

It's worth it - to them. To celebrate. Let's say that energy can be obtained from lignite in a particularly environmentally polluting way. This is a serious success, especially if the goal was to increase air pollution. The advocates of vegetables somehow forget that 45 percent of the country's energy mix has already been produced from fossil energy carriers, which - since nuclear power "only" represented 6 percent - they will be able to obtain an additional 6 percent from burning fossil fuels.

Also, there is the French network. They get their electricity from nuclear power, but it's not a German atom. The French atom is the good atom, because you can buy it. Just as American liquefied gas is also a good gas, in contrast to Russian, which is (would be) cheaper, but ideologically infected, anti-Ukrainian gas. Cheers, German logic!

But why do you have to give up nuclear energy? Yes, because a Fukushima could come, and that is a big danger. It is true that the vast majority of the former German nuclear power plants operated so far from the tsunami-prone sea that if they were hit by a tidal wave, it wouldn't matter anyway, because Germany would be swept away by the tsunami, but this small logical problem does not excite the dark greens. Nor is it that

the closure could seriously jeopardize the energy security of the entire country, including that of industrial production.

Not even for him, he lost more... well, not at Mohács, but something similar. Who cares about those mammoth corporations? Good, the people who work there, but not so much others. Maybe the companies that supply the mammoths... well, my God, there is no victory without sacrifices.

Why, dear German greens, do you think it has victims?

Author: György Tóth Jr

(Header image: REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)