{"id":306504,"date":"2025-07-31T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306504\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:54:10","slug":"the-humbling-of-green-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306504\/","title":{"rendered":"The humbling of green Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">\u201cGERMANY MAKES up 2% of global emissions,\u201d a legislator recently informed his Bundestag colleagues. \u201cSo even if we became climate-neutral overnight, it would not prevent a single extreme weather event.\u201d Such statements are commonly used as justifications for inaction by Europe\u2019s hard right, opposed as it now is to almost all forms of climate action. Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, was singing from the same hymnal when he recently accused the government of \u201c[defrauding] British taxpayers of billions of pounds every year [by] subsidising wind energy and solar energy for literally zero effect on global CO2 emissions.\u201d But the German MP was not one of the similarly aligned climate sceptics from the Alternative for Germany. He was Friedrich Merz, the country\u2019s chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGERMANY MAKES up 2% of global emissions,\u201d a legislator recently informed his Bundestag colleagues. \u201cSo even if we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[54408,51,2311,2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-306504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-briefing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947716775782113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}