[indefatigable]

Yet Germany has institutionalized the same mentality on a more abstract level.

"Global warming might be happening, shut down the energy industry!"

"We can't use nuclear power, someone might get cancer! Keep mining coal and etching solar panels!"

[pzuraq]

That's a ridiculous comparison, The fact of the matter is that those decisions are completely logical. Whether or not global warming is happening, we will run out of fossil fuels and fissionable material eventually. Solar is renewable, self sustaining. By building out solar Germany is reducing there dependence on foreign countries and securing there future; Possibly helping to reduce global warming is just icing on the cake.

[Nicholas_C]

>That's a ridiculous comparison, The fact of the matter is that those decisions are completely logical.

I don't think shutting down an entire industry in a knee jerk reaction is logical. Gently paring down fossil fuel energy consumption is logical. I think the extreme reaction is the illogical mentality that he was talking about.

[sliverstorm]

Solar is renewable, self sustaining

The sun is, but what about the raw materials needed to make the panels?

[pavs]

They are not even remotely the same thing.