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The deployment of solar energy, battery storage, and electric vehicles has accelerated in recent years.
  • elala@nrw.social@nrw.social
    4·
    2 days ago

    @Nyssa
    The transition in agriculture is likely to be a sticking point, because the fossil fuel lobby will mobilize its armies of farmers, who were first hooked on and then kept dependent on pesticides and fertilizers.
    I look forward to hearing your announced remarks on this subject.

    • syvash@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Not just that, but fossil fuel in itself.

      For example, last year’s (or was it 2023) farmer protests in Germany – the trigger was the plan of the then government to gradually reduce state subsidies for diesel for the farmers.

      Ironically, the far-right, who have it in their program that they want to cut all subsidies, successfully hijacked the protests.

      If only european farmers could fucking read

      • elala@nrw.social@nrw.social
        0·
        19 hours ago

        @syvash
        I think the outrage over the cancellation of subsidies for “agricultural diesel” was deliberately stirred up by lobby groups and used as a show of force. The real problems facing farmers run much deeper and would require a complete structural change that would call into question consumer behavior and, as a result, industrial production as a whole.
        That is why the farmers’ association had its mercenaries occupy the streets with heavy equipment.

        Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

        • syvash@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          15 hours ago

          That, and also the “right-wing” political forces (There may well be an overlap)

          • elala@nrw.social@nrw.social
            1·
            14 hours ago

            @syvash
            The farmers’ associations (not all small farmers, of course!) already played a “very special” role during National Socialism, exploiting forced laborers and, after the war, taking advantage of the plight of those bombed out of the cities and the displaced, trading their last possessions for a piece of butter or a sack of flour.