"Climate protection is not free of charge."
-- Wolfgang Schauble, President of the Bundestag (basically the Speaker of the German Assembly).
It is a great quote, and he is basically telling the German public that various costs are involved, and that just desiring to save-the-world....isn't going to be a cost-free action.
The problem in this 'warning' is that Germans tend to remember things....like when the Stuttgart leadership spoke to the cost of the Stuttgart-21 renovation project, and how the cost tripled in nature over a period of five years. The same occurred with the Hamburg concert hall....the Berlin Airport, and so on. Just having some idiot stand in front and say only these jobs are lost or that the cost will only amount to one trillion Euro for the residents of Germany....isn't going to work.
This past week in Germany....one of the young people associated with the Fridays-for-the-Future crowd noted that you didn't need to worry about Grandparents standing against the Friday's agenda....because they weren't going to be around for long. Yes, as you can imagine, that got hyped up in public attention, and quickly got deleted from the social media posting.
It is a continual trend in German public news now....where various groups talk of agendas, programs, tax increases, and mandates. It's a popular trend with young people....much less so with older people.
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All he needs to do is balance the books. People should pay a cost for environmental damage rather than being allowed to socialise the damage and privatise the profit.
Problem solved. Tell him he's welcome from me.
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