The energy transition may be »well intentioned«; it’s implemented as a war against the poor with their fondness for cheap meat and smelly old diesel cars. But what does the abandoned villager do when the advance payments for his rickety gas heater exceed his monthly income? Instead of asking the nearest bank for a loan for a heat pump, he burns the forest on the outskirts in his sooty chimney.
One only has to walk through Brandenburg villages these days to see such thwarting of climate rescue for one’s own benefit, although this benefit often enough consists in averting personal bankruptcy, if not starvation or hypothermia. Everywhere the stacks of firewood grow into the sky.
This mouth-robbing is not recorded in the official surveys, and yet more forest is burned there than…
