Germans are all up in arms about a 40% rise in the price of natural gas.But, as Der Spiegel said:
“The number, 40 percent, becomes even more compelling when it is linked to other numbers. A week ago last Friday, it became known that the world would have to build 1,344 nuclear power plants to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to half of its current level. When the IAEA announced the number at a meeting of the G-8 energy ministers in Tokyo, the German energy minister found himself under more pressure than usual, because Germany plans to abandon nuclear energy completely by 2022.”
As an aside, the book by Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin, "The Day of the Oprichnik,” which was referred to in the Der Spiegel piece, sounds like an interesting read.
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posted 17 June 2008 11:10 AM
