Government impositions needed for climate protection
While the Green Party has steered clear of proposing certain impositions on the population鈥� such as higher fuel prices 鈥� during the current election campaign, such actions by the government are ultimately indispensable to protect the climate, writes Detlef Esslinger in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. This is due to what is known as the 鈥榬ationality trap鈥�, where what is rational action for an individual does not correspond to what is rational for society as a whole. In today鈥檚 society, 鈥渃limate protection is only possible if the state uses its coordinating hand. It can work with regulations, bans, or incentives. But the main thing is that it falls on the state to do it. The state alone is capable of quickly showing the way out of the rationality trap鈥�, Esslinger writes.
Read the opinion piece in German .
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