I further add the paradox of the current government's climate policy, which points to a shortcoming of a policy of simply setting emissions targets: even if the German electricity giants' new coal and gas power plants are built, renewables stiffled and nuclear phased out, German CO2 emissions are set to reduce -- due to new fossile-firing plants' higher efficiency than their present cousins. So Big Industry & friends in politics can sabotage a policy of the outright elimination of the CO2 producers.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}