We shut down nuclear plants while burning coal imported from Australia and Colombia. I stood in the control room of Brokdorf in 2016 and watched them power down reactors that could have carried northern Germany through the dark years of grid transition. We had the capacity to decarbonize faster, to stabilize the baseload while building offshore wind — instead we handed the keys to lignite and Russian gas. I model storm surges rising from warming seas, and I know what delayed action costs. Every winter since 2022, I heat my flat with a single radiator and keep my coat on indoors, because the math doesn’t care about ideology. The people shouting about energy independence now are the same ones who called me a fearmonger when I warned about supply fragility in 2019.
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