Hamburg Just Committed Itself To Zero Industry By 2040
Climate lunatics in Hamburg pass referendum committing Germany’s leading industrial city to deindustrialise completely in 15 years
Hamburg is German’s leading industrial city. Its companies add 20 billion Euros in gross value every year.
Much of this economic output is related to Hamburg’s happy location on the Elbe and the fact that the city is home to Europe’s third-largest port.
All of this has made Hamburg extremely prosperous, which prosperity has filled it with rafts of clueless virtue-signalling morons who have no idea how anything works, why they find Hamburg attractive in the first place or how their hip urban lifestyles are maintained.
In this photo, published by BILD, you can see some of these unmitigated retards having a happy because they’ve just scored cheap virtue points by voting in their own personal energy apocalypse.
Specifically, these dumbasses are celebrating because their completely insane popular referendum passed with 53.2% of the vote on Sunday.
This referendum, the so-called Zukunftsentscheid (“future decision”), binds the Free and Hanseatic City to achieving total ‘carbon’ neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than the 2045 goal set by the almost equally insane Germany-wide Climate Protection Law as emended in 2021, which is in turn five years earlier than the 2050 goal established by the selfsame law as it originally passed the Bundestag in the year of the child-saint Greta Thunberg 2019.
Turnout was pretty low in Hamburg last Sunday, with less than 44% of eligible voters bothering to cast a ballot, most of them by mail.
Thus just 23 percent of the most deranged Hamburgians could take their city hostage and commit its government to destroying all of its industry and most of its economic activity inside the next decade and a half.
The biggest joke is that when Hamburg has finally achieved the sacred ‘net zero’, it will make absolutely zero net difference to anything. Hamburg is responsible for something like 0.022 percent of CO2 emissions globally. The city is not even a rounding error.
The referendum was an initiative of Fridays for Future, but it gathered the support of various social and environmental organisations, among them Greenpeace, the union Verdi and even the soccer team FC St. Pauli.
Consider just some of the consequences: All gas and oil heating systems in every last building in Hamburg will have to be removed in the coming years. Hamburg’s entire natural gas network, constructed over generations and extending to nearly 8,000 kilometers, will have to be decommissioned entirely.
Municipal industries must transition from petroleum coke and gas entirely to hydrogen and e-fuels, although there is hardly a market for either of these alternatives or even the hope of one.
If this law is not reversed, Hamburg will become a wasteland. First industry will leave, and then many of the people will, because there will be no jobs.
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