: re: Missing Its Own Goals, Germany Renews Effort to Cut Carbon Emissions

Thursday, December 4, 2014

: re: Missing Its Own Goals, Germany Renews Effort to Cut Carbon Emissions

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Subject: re: Missing Its Own Goals, Germany Renews Effort to Cut Carbon Emissions
To: "letters@nytimes.com" 

To the Editor:

    Germany has set a high bar for herself in the 21st century, leading the world away from the carbon-based economy of the 19th century and forgoing the fission power that seemed so promising in the 20th.   Faced with the prospect of Putin using natural gas exports as a weapon, however, she has fallen back on some coal-fired capacity that might otherwise have been shut down. That's an exigency of history, not a failure of vision. The rest of the world--much of which has more solar and more wind potential than Germany--would do well to follow where she leads into the future.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/europe/germany-carbon-emissions-environment.html?_r=0