German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • PowerCrazy
    73·
    1 year ago

    You don’t need to dismantle capitalism to protect the climate.

    You absolutely do. If it was profitable to destroy the envrionment capitalism would do it in a heartbeat. And guess what it IS profitable to destroy the environment, that is why it is happening! You cannot protect the environment under capitalism.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      11·
      1 year ago

      When you try to dismantle capitalism… you get capitalism under a different name, with a dictator on top of it. Better hope the dictator wants to protect the environment, and that he knows how to! (see: Great Chinese Famine)

    • smollittlefrog@lemdro.idEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      You can limit capitalism without abolishing it.

      In Germany people are guaranteed 20/24 paid vacation days. That’s not profitable.

      That’s a limit imposed on capitalism. It can be done and has been done without abolishing capitalism.

      That’s just one of the thousands of policies that limit capitalism.

      You can limit capitalism (as literally every capitalist nation does) without abolishing it.

      Enforcing climate friendlyness would be just another limit.

      • PowerCrazy
        44·
        1 year ago

        When you try to limit capitalism you get nuclear plants being shut down and coal plants being opened and the environment still being destroyed.