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  • The wind always blows somewhere. Diversification of locations across a country or ideally across Europe minimizes reliability issues. The rest can be covered by investment in storage technologies.

    Meanwhile constructing nuclear plants would be a 30+ year approach (not even solution) to a <10 year problem, if it could even be done. And that’s highly doubtful, if you look at the massive problems e.g. France has with maintaining it’s aging plants, Britain has with the Hinkley Point C project (built by french experts that should have the necessary routine - this is not a matter of lack of experience) and so on.






  • Well, no, flat prices wound crash in that case & again be affordably.

    Only if the supply exceeded the demand which just can’t be assumed - that’s the reason prices are high in cities in the first place. Construction prices have no reason to drop as they are driven by labour and materials. So only wealthy people and companies would have the means to build and companies wouldn’t do so for lack of profits in renting.

    saying that ppl can’t afford to buy so they rent is bs if the rent is higher that the mortgage would have been.

    Which might happen in some weird fringe cases, but if the owner knows basic maths it usually won’t. You’d set rent at least high enough to repay your own loan on the property and make some profit.

    And if it were true why not buy right now? Because the bank won’t give you a loan. And that too wouldn’t suddenly change.


  • people just need to live somewhere.

    For people to build or buy their own homes they need to be able to afford them. They can’t, which is why they rent. If landlords don’t offer flats for rent anymore, people don’t magically have more money to buy or build.

    Corporation and private investors build rental properties because they aim to profit from them, and if that isn’t the case anymore, their construction activity slows down and then stops. As can currently be seen e.g. in Germany.

    The only way to effectively counter rising rents in cities is public, non profit construction and decentralization efforts (so people don’t all flock to the few places that are hip to live in).




  • And where did you get this information?

    From a study/news article about the study, not from the government.

    Paper is patient, and most people don’t read programs or the bpb. Those who do already tend to be on the side of reason.

    Propaganda needs to be constantly debunked. Every time Merz says something dumb, somebody needs to stand up and call out his bs. And the reply needs to be catchy enough to make the headline right next to his nonesense. Playing fair and not offending will not work.

    I refuse to believe people want to follow right wing misanthropes inherently. They just hear their short, easy to mistake for the truth messages 20 times a day. And if there even is a progressive voice replying, it’s convoluted and beating around the bush. “Wtf, what are you talking about, illegal immigrants? We have some 50.000 of those, chances are most of the other 80 Million people have never even seen one.” Why do I never hear anything like that? Not even on public media.




  • I don’t think so. All of the parties failed to even try to paint a positive picture of immigration in those past years, or at least clearly communicate the necessity of it: Germany alone needs 400.000 additional immigrants across all levels of qualification a year to keep up the workforce and keep the social systems running, and we’re talking about turning people away. If all you do is stand by and watch instead of speaking up, of course people only have the one narrative to follow.