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?

  • 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@lemmy.ml
      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.