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Politics cannot create jobs, but it can destroy jobs! – Is the structural transformation in our region failing?Politics has decided to phase out coal-fired power and implement structural change because man-made CO2 has been identified as the driver of global warming. But can this structural transformation actually succeed? On May 30, 2024, Rüdiger Erben (SPD) posted in the Facebook group Zeitz Weißenfelser Braunkohlenrevier about a regional conference convened by Revierwende. Erben wrote: "The IGBCE rightly points out that people now want to see results. The future of the Zeitz Weißenfelser lignite mining region cannot simply be to serve as a bedroom for Leipzig residents who find life there too expensive." It gives the impression that the structural transformation is not going very well. What is the status of the structural transformation?In an interview from June 6, 2019, Prof. Dr. Thomas Brockmeier (Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Halle/Dessau) explained that the so-called structural transformation is in fact a structural break, and that politics cannot create jobs but can destroy jobs. Even back then, it was discussed that the coal phase-out would mean the loss of 6,000 industrial jobs. These 6,000 workers are linked to corresponding income losses and 6,000 families who, if no other jobs are found in the region, might have to leave. This is followed by revenue losses in many other sectors of the economy and retail, leading to further job losses. On the website of the SEWIG – Structural Development and Economic Promotion Company Burgenlandkreis mbH, a few projects are listed that are planned or already underway. These do not give the impression that 6,000 new and above all sustainably lasting industrial jobs will be created. Projects listed include "Green Heat Hohenmölsen," for which €50 million in funding has already been allocated, the H2-Hub-BLK, sustainable safeguarding and innovative expansion of the chemical site Zeitz, automated public transport, digitalization, and smaller projects. I cannot imagine that these will sustainably create industrial jobs in the necessary scale, especially since these projects involve facilities that will operate largely automatically and therefore require fewer personnel. Self-driving cars and buses do not need drivers. Meaningful digitalization of administration also means jobs can be cut in that area. Wind turbines, solar parks, or plants producing hydrogen from electricity do not require excavator operators or machine fitters. Somewhat hidden on the SEWIG website it is also stated: "The Burgenlandkreis participated in the tender for this federal program in November 2020 and received a funding commitment in January 2021 for the period February 2021 to January 2025. The STARK federal program is primarily non-investive. This means that no investments are funded, only ongoing costs such as personnel expenses, rents, or office supplies. This program is intended to enable the district to manage the transformation to an ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable economic structure." So SEWIG is funded with its employees who are supposed to attract companies. Whether this will succeed to the required extent in times when even in economic circles the term deindustrialization is used due to political decisions is doubtful. What do critics say about the structural and climate change?At an event by EnergieVernunft Mitteldeutschland e.V. on September 27, 2019, Dr. Horst Rehberger, former Minister for Economy and Labor and Deputy Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, expressed his fears that the structural transformation will have consequences similar to those in the Ruhr region. Dr. Patrick Moore from Vancouver (Canada), Greenpeace founder and critic, already voiced massive doubts about the narrative of human-caused climate change at that time. He called for more forests instead of more wind turbines. Voices questioning the narrative of human-made climate change focusing on CO2 are increasing overall. A closer look at the data shows that the rise in CO2 follows the warming of the atmosphere and is not the cause of the warming. Therefore, the question arises whether the political decisions make sense, which, it now seems to some, will not cause a structural transformation but a structural break. Certainly, coal mining would come to a halt in a few years due to depleted deposits. But until then, there would be more time to adapt to the change. Sudden, rushed actions often miss the target and cost enormous amounts of money. Money that ultimately taxpayers, the citizens, have to provide/earn. What now?Today I had to "smirk" again when I passed an SPD election poster saying "Clear course in stormy times." That these stormy times are also a result of SPD policies was conveniently left out. The Greens campaign with "Renew prosperity." One could interpret this to mean that the current prosperity must first be dismantled or destroyed to build new prosperity – whatever that might look like. The CDU sometimes only advertises with "Prosperity." They also agreed to the coal phase-out and the resulting structural change (or structural break). The FDP campaigns for warmonger "Oma Courage" Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann to be elected to the European Parliament. Arms deliveries also seem to have very high priority with the Free Democrats. I do not know that weapons are climate-friendly or CO2-neutral. Such demands are actually contradictory to a CO2-neutral Germany. Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | vor dem 01.07.2024 |
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