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 i care a lot about nature and the environment but absolutely disagree with the Greens there... ironically, they don't think even one step ahead, they're like "i don't care that electricity is expensive" while only thinking about charging their phone, or maybe how it hurts bitcoin miners (🙂)

like pretty much all politics nowadays it's crude, first degree feel-good sloganism... "nuclear plant baaad"

then forget, electricity is a large part of the operating cost of everything from farms to industrial plants, so making electricity more expensive makes products more expensive, so importing more competitive, indirectly causing more international shipping and oil burning 
 Things the Greens are not: logistics and automotive specialists.
I am. That's why I'm not Green. I prefer electrical stuff, in many cases, but I'm aware that electricity doesn't just come out of the wall socket. 
 i mean i am not a specialist in either but i can reason about them
politicians just repeat and do what dumb people want basically 
 And they always take things too far. They take every topic and just run with it, until they get hit with a bad election, and then they row back.