Fighting Evil Climate Change (German Version)

Over the past couple of days, the smoke has cleared, and the CDU-SPD coalition team has reached a conclusion.  In draft form?

Basically, they are going to find 40 billion Euro over the next four years (10 billion Euro a year) to save Germans and the nation from evil climate change.  The CO2 tax business?  Dumped by the side of the road....the CDU has been able to convince their partners that it's unworkable.

So things ought to look good?  Well....there's this goal of two-thirds of all German energy being solar or wind-power within 11 years (2030).  The wind energy business has hit a slump....a lot of the wind generators have reached the end of their life-span, and their replacements are NOT being put up.....so there's this trend-line leading downward right now.  The expectation?  Some folks think that a tax credit will have to be offered to companies to go back to erecting wind generators.  Some other folks think that laws will have to be put up.....limiting criticism or legal fights against the erection of wind 'farms'.

All of this leads to two groups in conflict.  The typical working-class German didn't want CO2 taxes....nor do they want forced participation in these various 'gimmicks'.  The pro-environmental crowd?  They wanted CO2 taxes, and a scripted trail for consumers to suffer unless they adapt to the overall plan.  Yes, the two groups are both putting political parties to the test.

Affecting future elections?  That's really the question to ask.  The next national election is 2021, and some journalists speculate that climate change and saving the Earth might end up being in the top three topics of that national election. 

So I leave with this odd question left from the Merkel-team....this 40-billion Euro to save Germany from climate change....where exactly will it come from?  This is the one odd thing which no journalist seems to have wondered about as they all reported on this for the Sunday news business.   Also, no one really went into any detail about how the 40-billion Euro would be spent....which you would think that this subject would be important.