“Climate protection as a religion”

“Some climate protection advocates rhetorically resemble religious fanatics,” Michael Fabricius writes in a commentary for Die Welt Online. If two major energy agencies demand a sevenfold increase in CO₂-emissions reduction “without explaining how that is going to work, they do nothing but to reinforce the moral self-esteem of their fellow believers”, Fabricius writes. “Climate protection won’t benefit from that,” he argues, saying that other groups of society are repelled by calls for higher investments in the energy sector. “Climate change is an undeniable fact,” Fabricius writes, adding that “mankind in any case has to prepare for taking the leap into non-fossil energy provision”. Continuously making greater and more costly demands will not be conducive, he argues.

Read the opinion piece in German here.

For background, see the CLEW dossier The energy transition and climate change.