50,000 people...

[yakalskovich]

... were at the protest against extending the licenses of the nuclear power stations in Germany, here in Munich today. According to the organisers; I haven't heard the police numbers yet to calculate a realistic average.

Here, you see a part of them.



The place was incredibly packed. All the anti-nuclear protesters from the eighties had, apparently come out from their bourgeois retirement, and there were hordes of young kiddies who hadn't even been born back then.

I feel like an old fart.



They had brought old slogans and symbols out of retirement, too. Instead of the traditional 'Nuclear Power -- No Thanks!', this says 'Nuclear Power -- Oh No Not Again!' The Nazgul and I quite liked the twist.

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[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I remember that logo! I don't even know where I first saw it, but it was in my I ♥ German phase, which would put it in the early-mid eighties.

[yakalskovich]

Yep, those were the times...

These are other times now, but it doesn't mean that nuclear power is suddenly okay. And the people who were against it the first time now come back out and say so.

Especially as there were some smaller hazardous incidents in Biblis lately, and the deep geological repository at Asse is leaky.

And people developed the technology to replace nuclear power with decentralised regenerative energy in the meanwhile. Germany exports the stuff all over the world, after all: - windmills and solar panels have become a core competency of our economy. Ending state subsidies to these industries early while extending the licenses of nuclear power stations will shift the money from small to medium sized businesses investing in the future to four large power oligopolists completely rooted in the past.

Which would be bad in more ways than I can enumerate within the limits of an LJ comment.-