Ideal would be to tax the thing you want to see people use less, so naturally instead everyone is falling over themselves to cut the gas tax. Which even Germany is doing, likely along with a number of American states. If Germany wanted to not have energy and hurt the climate, would its actions be different?
German politics generally work on the assumption that the government is supposed to prevent citizens from suffering. That’s more important than the climate. On very stupid policy we have in Germany is for example that people who live far away from work and thus damage the environment by having to travel more get tax deductions for doing so.
German politics generally work on the assumption that the government is supposed to prevent citizens from suffering. That’s more important than the climate. On very stupid policy we have in Germany is for example that people who live far away from work and thus damage the environment by having to travel more get tax deductions for doing so.