Is that coal power plant producing plastic waste or are you perhaps talking about an entirely different problem that need to be addressed by separate legislation?
geissi
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the German approach of having silent Sundays
Except if you live near a semi-popular street. Then you still have constant traffic noise.
Plants are green because the sun is green, duh
Employers in Germany have to bear half of the mandatory social security contributions.
This is on top of gross salary and includes mandatory health insurance.
The government points out in the budget that at least seven other countries, including the U.K., France, Italy and Spain, already have similar taxes in place.
Come on, they've already listed four, why not mention the remaining three?
that prices will go up when salaries go up is not wrong
Rising wages can increase prices, but don't necessarily have to.
Also other factors can increase prices while wages stagnate.
Recent price increases e.g. have mostly been driven by supply and logistics issues, mostly for food and energy.
that that’s a problem is also not wrong
That is not entirely correct either.
If wages rise through the board, then rising prices are not a big issue.
On the contrary, wage driven inflation might even re-balance income distribution to the benefit of workers.
Compared to naked mole rats, bananas are more yellow.
"hast hath passed"
That's bait, isn't it?
I don't.
I think everybody should have the same opinion.
there is a difference between the end of a LICENCE and the end of something’s functional life?
This may be somewhat pedantic but the plant's functional life ended when the license ran out.
The planned/ hoped for EoL may have been longer but if there was a 40 year license then the end of that license is also the end of the initially licensed lifetime. Otherwise they could have just issued a 50 or 60 year license.
That doesn't mean lifetimes cannot be extended, many plants run longer than initially planned.
But not renewing a license is hardly a premature shutdown,
But NONE of that means that the plant was some falling apart scrapheap that needed closed
As already stated, I didn't make any argument about its functionality and it has no bearing to my argument.
That said, other have claimed that the plant was apparently leaking, which does sound like an argument against renewal.
I never claimed that the license couldn't be renewed nor that it wouldn't be running fine.
The license period had a pre-determined END and it's LIFEtime has not been extended.
Surely the very existence of a time limit to the license must mean that the option to not renew it after a certain time has been anticipated when the license was originally issued.
And for all that it does not matter, whether that was the correct decision or not, whether other plants had their licenses renewed orwhether these other plants are operating just fine.
If everybody individually behaved correctly, we wouldn't need any laws.
But as the entire human history has shown us, that is not the case. Which is why societies have passed laws even before recorded history.