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watduhdamhell t1_j9k89h4 wrote

Reply to comment by magicsonar in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

The Germans are typically very smart people.

But the decision to close down nukes in favor of fucking coal plants was one of the dumbest decisions a country has ever made (visible to the world stage) and its economic and environmental cost continues to this very day.

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patmax17 t1_j9k5hzb wrote

Reply to comment by I_tend_to_correct_u in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

thanks for pointing that out, I thought I was misremembering cashiers sitting down

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j9k3ih9 wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Damn! There goes my conspiracy theory that Russia maintains a war footing in order to force the American military into constant production which speeds up global warming in order to unfreeze Siberia, revealing enormous swaths of arable farmland.

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KiwiBattlerNZ t1_j9k2z3x wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

So basically, what the EU are saying is they always could have accelerated the transition, but chose not to do so.

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Jaker788 t1_j9k25mc wrote

Reply to comment by patmax17 in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Unfortunately many are working on bringing workers back in the office full time even if they're don't need to be for their role. Amazon is an example of one planning on going back soon, many smaller or lesser known companies I'm sure are doing the same.

It's unfortunate

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MothMan3759 t1_j9k24mj wrote

Reply to comment by patmax17 in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Oh they rarely do bring about positive change, but they do have a chance to get work done in time.

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atvan t1_j9k23nw wrote

Reply to comment by Alastair_Campbell in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Most of those words means specific things in modern politics though, which is significantly more confusing. Commissioner would work since it's actually correct, but shorter headlines are better generally.

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Indocede t1_j9k20gc wrote

Reply to comment by HumanStruggle8295 in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Russians have Tsars, just as Germans have Kaisers, just as many European languages have a word derived from Caesar.

Czar is a word used in English. Who are you to tell English speaking people that their word is wrong just because it sounds like another word when you probably have such a word in your language as well that you use to refer to something beyond Russian emperors?

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magicsonar t1_j9k1nrz wrote

Reply to comment by vancity- in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Yes I somehow suspect these optimistic stories that the war has been good for renewables is deliberately designed to disguise the truth that the war has completely derailed the entire climate change efforts. No one is even talking about emission reduction targets now, just how quickly we can ramp up fossil fuel alternatives to Russian gas. Huge win for the fossil fuel industry as the majority of the European public is quiet on the issue.

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bluedarky t1_j9k1h6c wrote

Reply to comment by I_tend_to_correct_u in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Hell, it’s the law in the uk that if a job can be done sitting down then your employer needs to make reasonable efforts to have a chair available for you if you want or require one.

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Indocede t1_j9k15hu wrote

Reply to comment by Alastair_Campbell in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Well if they were more appropriate, czar would not be the common word for such a position. And for the reasons you take issue with czar, that it has other meanings, also rules out all the words you suggested, moreso given the meanings of those words tend to be rigid; whereas czar is a word that exists because of flexible which we can understand through its etymological history.

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I_tend_to_correct_u t1_j9k0sbs wrote

Reply to comment by NeroBoBero in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

That’s only a US thing. In every other country the unions demanded that on day one. It’s actually hard to fathom why this still exists in the US to be honest, it can’t affect profits surely?

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