Hast du auch Argumente , wieso es keine Sachbeschdigung sein sollte ? <| sep |> Let ' s say there is some causal relationship between environmentalism and slowed GDP growth , which I think is pretty debatable , and would at best only have a strongly short term effect . You really think that GDP growth is more important than the future of the planet ? Or that fossil fuels aren ' t running out in the next 100 years and that the transition needs to start sooner rather than later away from them ? Have you seen the projections of what happens if we do nothing to stop climate change ? Here ' s an explanation of the different scenarios 3 here ' s what happens if we end up in RCP 8 . 5 globalwarmingl 21 . htm it ' s not prettyThe UK has a shit tonne of influence in the world Our policies don ' t just affect our energy sector , they have a much wider influence . You ' ve seen China pick up the environmental gauntlet in the last year right ? t r u m p s u c c e s s h e l p s c h i n a e m ergeasglobalclimateleader You don ' t think that has anything to do with what we and the rest of the EU have been doing in the past decades ? These things don ' t happen in a vacuum . It becomes pretty hard for us and other countries to influence developing countries towards going down the green path if we ' re not doing it ourselves . Edit I ' d also argue that the high upfront cost but low maintenance cost nature of lots of renewables e . g . wind , solar tidal make them much more democratic , predictable and cheaper going forwards than something which depends on the current market price and has to be constantly replenished . Oil also has a history of coming from the middle East which causes political issues also . see Iraq war