What about a 5 years delay on shareholder dividends? That may encourage longer-term thinking, or at least beyond quarterly.

Mfers the real deadline was 20 years ago, we already irreversibly fucked up wild bees and many forests, you don’t get to delay it anymore. In fact, be grateful deadline is not “tomorrow or go broke” (as it should be)

Oh yeah just ask the climate to wait. Sure it will be fine. Ffs, right in the middle of a really bad heatwave too?

The medieval age, or dark age, was just a few dozen generations ago. When humans used to burn women because of superstition and persecuted scientists as heretics. When it was common for children and mothers to die during childbirth. When disease killed a quarter or so of a population. When people died due to a bad tooth or a broken limb. When education was based a century’s old fiction book. It took many curious and courageous lifes to establish the scientific method. This scientific method enabled us to go from riding horses to flying to the moon. To have pocket sized computers, that connect and enterntain us. Due to science we eradicated many terrible diseases and are on the verge to win over AIDS and cancer. Nowadays this science is available almost everywhere and anytime to almost anybody.

German businesses, politicians call for 5-year delay in climate targets

A lot, if not all of the things these businesses sell are based on science. Now they want us be ignorant to science again. Every action has a reaction! The law of physics does not wait for us to be ready. The science is clear: we can’t delay reducing fossil fuel use any longer! And:

Screw anybody that tries to keep humanity ignorant and uneducated!

Sure, why not just cancel climate change instead?

Well, Germany can vote Green and move the Overton window and shut those clowns up but instead… AfD.

Instead of 2045, Germany should adopt the European target year of 2050 … Germany’s current special path of aiming to become climate-neutral five years earlier than the European Union makes the country more expensive as a business location without achieving any additional climate impact.

It would be better if the world would move toward the German goal rather than the other way around.

But the world doesn’t seem to want that, particularly the world’s biggest emitters: the U.S. seems to quit any emissions reductions at all, and China aims to reach carbon neutrality in 2060, ten years later than the EU (yet China is hailed as the global leader in climate change actions).

The world isn’t on a good path, but I somehow feel Germany isn’t the biggest problem here.

Deutschland abreißen.

Man, I despise Vassiliadis and his union. He’s the worst the DGB has to offer, even though all of them (at the top) are bootlickers selling out the workers all the time.