On: Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

[toomuchtodo]

They could've, but people and politics are hard and they didn't. It is what it is, can't change the past. We win or we learn.

[suddenlybananas → toomuchtodo]

That kind of fatalism could apply to literally any idiotic policy. The German government knew what they were doing when they made that choice.

[looperhacks → suddenlybananas]

"You can't change the past" really isn't fatalism

[RandomLensman → suddenlybananas]

You think voters had no role there? I don't see nuclear power enjoying some constitutional protection as such, so choosing against it seems ok.