Climate Lunatics in Hamburg Pass Referendum Committing Germany’s Leading Industrial City to Deindustrialise Completely in 15 Years
Hamburg is German’s leading industrial city. Its companies add €20 billion in gross value every year. Much of this economic output is related to Hamburg’s happy location on the Elbe and the fact that the city is home to Europe’s third-largest port. All of this has made Hamburg extremely prosperous, which prosperity has filled it with rafts of clueless virtue-signalling morons who have no idea how anything works, why they find Hamburg attractive in the first place or how their hip urban lifestyles are maintained.
In this photo, published by BILD, you can see some of these unmitigated retards having a happy because they’ve just scored cheap virtue points by voting in their own personal energy apocalypse.
Specifically, these dumbasses are celebrating because their completely insane popular referendum passed with 53.2% of the vote on Sunday. This referendum, the so-called Zukunftsentscheid (“future decision”), binds the Free and Hanseatic City to achieving total carbon neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than the 2045 goal set by the almost equally insane Germany-wide Climate Protection Law as emended in 2021, which is in turn five years earlier than the 2050 goal established by the selfsame law as it originally passed the Bundestag in the year of the child-saint Greta Thunberg 2019.
Turnout was pretty low in Hamburg last Sunday, with less than 44% of eligible voters bothering to cast a ballot, most of them by mail. Thus just 23% of the most deranged Hamburgians could take their city hostage and commit its government to destroying all of its industry and most of its economic activity inside the next decade and a half. The biggest joke is that when Hamburg has finally achieved the sacred Net Zero, it will make absolutely zero net difference to anything. Hamburg is responsible for something like 0.022% of CO2 emissions globally. The city is not even a rounding error.
The referendum was an initiative of Fridays for Future, but it gathered the support of various social and environmental organisations, among them Greenpeace, the union Verdi and even FC St Pauli. It will successively cap annual CO2 emissions sector-by-sector, imposing a slow and relentless strangulation in turn on transit, households, commerce and industry.
Consider just some of the consequences. All gas and oil heating systems in every last building in Hamburg will have to be changed out in the coming years. The cost to landlords will be reckoned in the billions. Hamburg’s entire natural gas network, constructed over generations and extending to nearly 8,000 kilometres, will soon have to be decommissioned entirely. The city will probably have to impose on all of its streets a strict speed limit of 30 km/h (19 mph) and take drastic steps to reduce traffic. Municipal industries must transition from coke and gas entirely to hydrogen and e-fuels, although there is hardly a market for either of these alternatives or even the hope of one. If this law is not reversed, Hamburg will become a wasteland. First industry will leave, and then all the people will.
Look again at this photo:
It is absolutely imperative to get these sorts of people out of politics. They are crazy and they are doing everything in their power to destroy civilisation. They are insulated from a lot of the economic chaos they wreak because they’re overwhelmingly government bureaucrats, university types and hipsters who are to varying degrees reliant on the state to make their living. They’re renters rather than owners, they live near the city centre rather than in the suburbs, they’re young rather than old (h/t Apollo News for that link) and they think what they’ve done is just fantastic.
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Well, let’s see how that turns out… 🤔
The sooner they get on with it the better. It will be a visible example of the sheer stupidity of carbon neutral policies. Once significant numbers of people start to suffer then the tide will turn.
I completely agree. I hope they absolutely wreck the local economy to the point where the population wish to tar and feather them.
That’s if they’re lucky, the angry mobs might decide to suspend a few from lampposts, which at that point won’t be producing any light, so will have a useful secondary function.
They have no idea of the consequences should they actually achieve their insane plans, but hopefully its nowhere near even partly feasible. That might save their skins.
Or drop them in the Elbe while holding a heavy weight.
Hamburg … [is] filled it with rafts of clueless virtue-signalling morons who have no idea how anything works
It’s more a product of a collective death wish, though, which in turn is a product of a decadent civilisation that is now entering a new Dark Age.
If you own any property in Hamburg, get rid – quick.
Modern-day Hamburg rose out of the ashes of a World War Two firestorm.
Beware again “the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister by the lights of perverted science.”
Net zero is a cult.
Nazism was also a cult.
Communism too.
This is what happens. People need to worship something or someone.
So Hamburg chose to worship the god of net zero.
Yes, the new gods are evil.
Yes, they will drive you insane and kill you.
It’s nothing new. Just look at a picture of Berlin after World War II.
Ah, but you think it can’t happen again because we are so enlightened and, yes, progressive these days.
Sure. Progressive towards what?
Not in the least bit surprised. Germany and its Greens are largely responsible for the whole eco movement. Started in the early 70s with we are going to run out of oil and will freeze by 2000, boosted by acid rain destroying our walks in the Black Forest and finally by turning off all the nuclear power stations in case a Tsunami in the Baltic flooded the country.
Insane doesn’t begin to cover it.
Becoming carbon neutral is a stupid goal in the first place, but to turn off the nuclear power stations at the same time is suicide. Intent self destruction.
Will the last ones leaving please note that the lights have already been turned off.
Blow out the candles??
Candles burn. That’s a chemical reaction turning Carbon (C) into Carbon-Dioxide (CO₂) which is henceforth strictly prohibited!
Let them do it, we can watch them starve.
The speccy bird in white looks like Miliband’s sister. Same gormless look.
Ye sow, so shall ye reap.
When the numpties realise what they have done it will be far too late to change it.
Lock the buggers up with Miliband and preferably throw the key away.
You say just 23% supported it but that’s a lot! We have more of the loonies and lanyard classes than I thought. Silly me.
One day these morons are going to wake up very, very hungry …. and realise that you can’t eat virtue
They are evidence of the collapse of western civilisation. We have bred nations of morons.
A Grsat Civil War must come to cleanse our Augean stables.
Here’s a controversial thiught: Germany is wrecking Europe again. Since it’s unification in the 19th century, it has made war on most of its neighbours and caused 2 gigantic wars that killed millions. Germany should be dismantled and turned into 10, small, separate states so that they are too small to do much damage.
Sh*t for brains.
Presumably as in Britain, the schools are captured by fundamentalist Woke?