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| Green party losses in EU elections raise concerns over Green Deal |
| 2024-06-12 |
| [THEGUARDIAN] Green parties have shed seats in the European elections, provisional results suggest, raising fears that the continent may be on the verge of weakening its climate ambitions. Projections for the new European parliament showed the Green faction pushed from fourth into sixth place, with 53 seats, amid a broader shift to the right. In Germany, a core Green stronghold, the party’s vote share appears to have nearly halved since the last election in 2019. Exit polls suggested it fell 8.5 percentage points from 20.5% to 12%. In La Belle France, where the far right was leading and President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections, support for the Greens fell by the same amount. But the party scored smaller victories elsewhere. In Denmark counting showed the Greens with three seats, a gain of one, while in Sweden they were expected to have held three seats. A Green-Left coalition looked to have narrowly beaten the far-right for first place in the Netherlands. Bas Eickhout, one of the two lead candidates for the Green party, said he was not disheartened by the projected results and pledged to push for an acceleration of the Green Deal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 This, Mike? Fallen Angels Kindle Edition by Larry Niven (Author), Michael Flynn (Author), Jerry Pournelle |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-06-12 14:33 |
| #6 ...Excellent sci-fi book novel called Fallen Angels - short version is that the Greens ultimately get their way....only to discover that the only thing keeping an extinction-level Ice Age at bay was everything they just got rid of. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-06-12 09:57 |
| #5 Can't wait for when the poles flip. That should be fun. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-06-12 09:18 |
| #4 weakening its climate ambitions And the downside of that is???? |
| Posted by: alanc 2024-06-12 08:21 |
| #3 /\ All of this doesn't make any sense other than as a leftist power grab. Sort of like the Wuhan Institute's Gain of Function (GOF) research ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-12 04:51 |
| #2 I'm sure Vlad would be willing to sell you cheap gas. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-12 04:41 |
| #1 For the last ca. 3 million years the Earth's climate has been highly unstable, oscillating between ice ages and warm periods. If there is man caused climate change, and if we end man caused climate change, we will end up with natural climate change. All of this doesn't make any sense other than as a leftist power grab. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-06-12 04:31 |