cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/10012136
Earlier this year, Germany’s environment ministry suggested there should be stricter limits on importing trophies from hunting animals.
Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish people in his country.
He said elephant numbers had exploded as a result of conservation efforts, and hunting helped keep them in check.
Germans should “live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to”, Mr Masisi told German newspaper Bild. “This is no joke.”
Botswana is home to about a third of the world’s elephant population - over 130,000 - more than it has space for.
Herds were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, Mr Masisi said.
Botswana has previously given 8,000 elephants to neighbouring Angola, and has offered hundreds more to Mozambique, as a means of bringing the population down.
“We would like to offer such a gift to Germany,” Mr Masisi said, adding that he would not take no for an answer.
Botswana’s Wildlife Minister Dumezweni Mthimkhulu last month threatened to send 10,000 elephants to London’s Hyde Park so British people could “have a taste of living alongside” them.
In March, UK MPs voted to support a ban on importing hunting trophies, but the legislation has further scrutiny to pass before becoming law.
And getting rid of nuclear, bunch of idiots
Lol, the conservatives got rid of nuclear.
“The position of the German government is clear: nuclear power is not green. Nor is it sustainable,” Steffi Lemke, Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment and Consumer Protection and a Green Party member, told CNN.
Did I say they were pro nuclear? No.
Did the conservatives kill german nuclear? Yes.
Is it too late now to get nuclear working again? Also yes.
Is it a shame nuclear was killed off early? Absolutely.
Did the conservatives kill renewables earlier so Germans had to rely on coal and gas for too long? Correct.
My “signature” for this topic (German unfortunately):
Abschließend will ich dem Thema anfügen, dass wir für mehr als ein Jahrzent eine Politikerin im höchsten politischen Amt hatten, die schon vor dem Antritt der Position überzeugt war, etwas gegen den Klimawandel tun zu müssen und dann fast nichts erreicht hat{pdf} und selbst unzufrieden ist!
I apologize, I can’t remember where I heard my information but apparently it was wrong. I just know the Greens in Canada are anti nuclear too. Its a shame we have so many uneducated politicians
The German government and science have a very stable relationship.
Obviously not about nuclear power since they shut em all down.
Stable as in “consistently denying it”
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Imagine believing nuclear energy is green. Idiot.
Imagine thinking it’s not a lot better than coal.
Imagine believing that it’s an alternative.
Why is Germany now buying electricity from France and their Nuclear fleet?
The electricity trade between France and Germany was almost in balance in 2023, +1.2TWh in favour of France. It’s not much compared with the trade balance of +13.3TWh with the United Kingdom, which nevertheless uses nuclear energy extensively, and this, for equivalent volumes.
If it isn’t green, why is it glowing green in cartoons and comics?
Nuclear is 1000x more energy dense than coal. Idiot