Historians will struggle to find another nation so thoroughly deceived by a small clique of people cocooned in taxpayer-funded NGOs or state employment.
By promoting the illusion of an ‘industrial power price’ and orchestrating a contrived discussion around ‘technology neutrality’ in climate policy, the German government practices media distraction. In truth, the agenda of climate socialism presses forward relentlessly. Confronted with severe deindustrialization, even agencies such as the Federal Audit Office are now hesitating.
Germany is enduring its eighth consecutive year of industrial decline. This near-decade-long trend of falling economic output, reduced productivity, and climbing unemployment has been superficially disguised by state-funded job programs and a flood of government loans, marking an unparalleled downturn in the postwar era.
Climate socialism has failed
The ambitious effort to build a climate socialist state is now crashing against the hard boundaries of economic reality. With insolvencies mounting, the scale of the crisis can no longer be hidden, even by compliant news outlets.
By 2025, over 24,000 businesses will have disappeared from the market. Numerous industrial roles have vanished. Companies such as Meyer Burger, tool manufacturer Leichingen, automotive supplier Meteor in Lower Saxony, and machinery producer Afermann in Osnabrück are among the recent casualties of an ideologically driven campaign undermining Germany’s manufacturing foundation.
Yielding to Brussels’ climate mandates was the original transgression—signaling a rejection of market dynamics and ushering in significant state encroachment on private enterprise.
Energy policies became a tool of control. The nuclear phase-out, forsaking affordable Russian gas, and decades of subsidizing ineffective renewables have transformed the energy framework into one that survives only with continuous public funding.
Hydrogen and the Federal Audit Office
The cycle of governmental interventions is unfolding in a textbook manner: each action demands another. This escalating reliance on subsidies has generated absurd outcomes like the government’s so-called hydrogen strategy.
Green hydrogen, generated through electrolysis powered by renewable energy, is intended as a substitute for coal, gas, and oil in steel and chemical production, as a synthetic fuel, and a means to store excess wind and solar energy.
What has materialized is a political quagmire—a multibillion-euro abyss added to the trillion-euro subsidy wasteland of the green transition. Already, seven billion euros have been funneled into it, removing capital from the market and burdening taxpayers through public debt.
This ‘market’ is a fictional construct devised by green central planners. In October, even the Federal Audit Office admitted Germany is farther from meeting its hydrogen goals than ever before.
Hydrogen remains costly, underused, and lacks genuine market demand—a remarkably candid assessment from one of the earliest government bodies to break the silence.
Bought silence, celebrated madness
The economy stays silent. Small businesses go unheard; large corporations have merged into the subsidy system. This bought silence resembles “the silence of the lambs” before their end. No entity dares to openly acknowledge that politics has stripped them of true influence.
Perhaps the most unsettling symbol of ideological frenzy was the scene of jubilant activists dancing before the ruins of intentionally shuttered nuclear reactors. This spectacle had nothing to do with environmentalism. It was pure disdain for bourgeois society, revealed in stark clarity.
A Walpurgis Night of lunacy—rejoiced in by those insulated within taxpayer-backed NGOs or public sector roles, detached from real life and the merit-based society centered on free market principles.
Germany’s ideological gridlock might be unparalleled. Historians will find it difficult to identify another country so thoroughly misled by a small cadre of climate socialists. Under the North Sea lie roughly 32 billion cubic meters of extractable natural gas—yet only about four billion are produced annually. Policy decisions have been hostage to NGOs, which block development at all costs.
Additionally, Germany sits atop approximately 2.3 trillion cubic meters of shale gas and an extra 450 billion cubic meters of coal seam gas. In light of the severe energy crisis, exploiting these resources should be essential.
Yet aside from the AfD, no political faction is eager to challenge climate-socialist dogma or even reopen the discussion.
Industry on the brink—no Plan B
Germany’s industrial collapse creates ripple effects that reverberate throughout the entire economy. Economic prosperity is closely linked to industrial performance—this is universally acknowledged. Hence, resuming Russian gas imports should be a top priority; past collaboration with Gazprom and Rosneft guaranteed global competitiveness.
Germany’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict and the initiative to seize Russian assets at Euroclear demonstrate how far rational policymaking has been abandoned.
The same applies to nuclear energy. The global landscape has progressed. Small modular reactors offer shorter build times, reduced capital expenditures, and eliminate meltdown risks. Reviving nuclear power now would restore Germany’s strategic position—if action begins immediately.
Shedding ideology
Expensive mistakes like the failed hydrogen rollout must be relegated to history as lessons for future generations that immature, ideology-driven governance inevitably leads to disaster.
The catastrophic CO2 narrative needs to be entirely rejected. Since Barack Obama’s 2009 decision to weaponize CO2 for climate policy, objective science has not succeeded in dismantling this moralistic myth perpetuated endlessly by state-controlled media.
Germany should emulate the American path by withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement to curtail Brussels’ expanding influence. This is currently impossible given the existing political establishment—Berlin’s guardians of the supranational agenda—whose clear aim is the systematic dismantling of German industry in favor of a contrived green economy.
Ideology carries a cost. Germans have long been living on borrowed time—sacrificing the future. That system is collapsing now, along with the public’s patience for apocalyptic delusions propagated by politicians and the media.
Original article: europeanconservative.com
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