The population wants more climate protection. Politicians are celebrating falling CO₂ emissions. But the energy transition is stalling. Why is that?
Fat fog has been clinging to the Hornisgrinde mountain for days and is covering the wind turbine on the summit. Only when Matthias Griebl rolls the SUV onto the gravel forecourt of the facility does the silhouette appear. He would have liked to present the wind turbine in the sunshine; it symbolizes his life’s work: the energy transition. “This is where my father, my brother and I built the first wind farm in Baden-Württemberg in 1994,” he says.
Griebl gets out carefully, his wife hands him crutches. Two and a half years ago he fell on his e-bike. The doctors diagnosed a broken cervical vertebra and paraplegia. So wheelchair. “Not with me,” Griebl said to himself. Since then he has been fighting his way back to the vertical. With unbridled will and a bit of wonder, it always works better. “I never give up,” says the 47-year-old, who has been hard of hearing since birth.
Source: Stern
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