Before translating this paper into English, I want to note my intuition.
The Chinese are probably allowing such a foolish decarbonization movement to unfold in Germany, which is nothing compared to China's carbon emissions.
It is a Chinese ploy to undermine the German economy and make it dependent on China.
Germany is so quickly falling for the schemes of a nation of abysmal evil and plausible lies because, as I have mentioned, Germany is a nation of pseudo-moralism, i.e., a country of rhetorical flourishes.
The same is true of the U.S. Democratic Party.
I can hear China, which has been exploiting its pseudo-moralism to the hilt, smiling broadly.
It is why Germany went "nuclear-free"... The real reason why the German government is controlled by radical environmental leftists (President Online)
Germany changed its energy policy after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in 2011 and achieved zero nuclear power plants on April 15, 2023.
German writer Kawaguchi Maan Emi, who lives in Germany, says, "Behind the government's policy change is the existence of a massive environmental NGO.
Germany's largest NGO has a budget of 6 billion yen and tremendously influences the government's decision-making.
This article is a partially re-edited version of "'Decarbonization' Will Save the World: The Big Lie" by Taishi Sugiyama (editor), Marn Emi Kawaguchi, Hideki Kakeya, Jun Arima, and others, published by Takarajimasya Shinsho.
It has the image of a small and weak organization that stands up to great evil.
On April 30, 2021, the online edition of Die Welt, a major German newspaper, carried a lengthy article titled "The Underestimated Power of the Green Lobby."
It was an excellent article that showed traces of meticulous research, and for the first time in a long time, I felt the absolute power of journalism.
The authors are Axel Boyanovsky and Daniel Wetzel.
Much of this paper was enlightening, and I solved the mystery of Germany's energy policy a bit.
The environmental NGOs, often considered small and weak organizations fighting against big evil, have a global network and have infiltrated the political center, influencing the political process with their mighty power and ample funds.
A great deal of public money is being poured into NGOs.
And the media has abandoned its critical spirit and strongly supports the government and NGOs.
In this article, I would like to examine the German government's dangerous energy policy, introducing shocking details as the two authors report them.
40% of power generation from coal and lignite to be terminated
Although environmental NGOs pose as a modest grassroots movement, their influence on energy policy and global warming prevention policy now far exceeds that of industrial lobbies.
While the ethics committee convened by the German government after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in 2011, which included clergy and sociologists rather than utility company representatives and scientists, decided to phase out nuclear power in 2022, seven years later, in 2018, the Committee on Growth, Structural Reform, and Employment (also known as the Coal Committee), NGO representatives had replaced clergy.
It is hard to believe that representatives of coal importers' unions were not even allowed to observe the meeting, even though it was to discuss the coal phase-out.
Germany is a country that has traditionally developed based on coal, and even now, 40% of its electricity generation is based on coal and lignite.
To suddenly terminate this industrial structure that has been in place for many years in a top-down fashion is a somewhat reckless plan.
A hasty exit from coal would violate the rights of corporate shareholders and deprive tens of thousands of workers in coal mines and related industries of their livelihood.
Therefore, the Coal Commission has decided to drop at least 40 billion euros by 2038 to compensate all sides and reform the affected states' industrial structure.
The government's basic policy now is that it does not care how much money is spent on the energy transition.
However, there is no indication of the financial resources and what the alternative industries will be.
However, both the members of the Coal Commission and the politicians have decided to get rid of coal by 2038 "at the latest," easily ignoring the mountain of problems that lie ahead.
Politics and Politicians are in Tight Alignment
The Greens objected, arguing that the coal-free date should be further pushed back.
The Greens are in league with nature and environmental NGOs, which can be found all over Germany.
With 11 million registered members, they are now a significant force in shaping public opinion in Germany.
With NGOs on its side, the Greens are riding the wave of decarbonization, and it is now said that after the general elections in September 2021, the party will be in the running to become the ruling party.
The tag team between politics and NGOs is already solid: NGOs participate in government technical committees, often accompany politicians on their outings, and have a regular seat as observers at international conferences.
In 2019, while attending the UN Climate Action Summit in Madrid, Environment Minister Schulze said, "Conversations with NGOs are crucial to me. We are fighting for the same issues," he tweeted.
The legality of unelected people acting on taxpayers' money and interfering in national politics and even in the formulation of legislation is quite tenuous. Still, it is already the norm in Germany today.
Moreover, the national government, state governments, and the EU are strong supporters of the finances of these NGOs.
■ Even with a considerable budget, the reality is that there are "obvious missing pieces."
BUND, headquartered in Berlin, has 580,000 members and received €21 million in public subsidies in the six years from 2014-19.
Meanwhile, Germany's largest NGO, NABU (620,000 members), also received 52.5 million euros (about 6.83 billion yen) in subsidies from eight public institutions during the same period.
NABU's main activity is the protection of flora and fauna, and in recent years, it has advocated for the protection of wild birds that die from being caught in wind turbines.
NABU received the most extensive grant of 36 million euros (about 4.68 billion yen) from the Ministry of the Environment, with others coming from the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In addition, an unprecedented budget of 47 million euros (approximately 6.11 billion yen) has already been set aside for subsequent four-year grants from 2020 to 2023.
However, according to the paper's authors, there are "clear missing pieces between the declarations and the actual situation" in the NGOs' financial reports.
In 2016, the European Parliament's Budget Committee commissioned a group of experts to audit the finances of EU-supported NGOs.
Still, the NGOs are intricately intertwined, and funds are widely spread, not only in environmental and nature conservation, but also in church charities and joint projects with China, which in the end are the NGOs, where, In the end, the investigation was fruitless, as it was impossible to determine which NGOs were engaged in which activities, where, and in what kind of relationship with each other.
I need to learn how to interpret this fact.
Was the group of experts incompetent, were the NGOs professional, or were there forces that wanted to hide the reality?
This article continues.
