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Die Ticken Doch Nicht Richtig!: Warum Politik Neu Denken Muss
160 pages, Hardcover
Published October 10, 2022
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July 25, 2023
Messerscharfe Diagnose des politischen Deutschlands im 21. Jahrhundert. Über die Lösungsvorschläge muss man politisch streiten.
January 5, 2023
I was curious about this book because Carsten Linnemann seems to represent an interesting mix of core conservative interests and independent thinking as well unconventional positions in the CDU. In the end, I found it quite disappointing.
The book starts with a surprisingly negative assessment of state institutions and policy.
The core of the book is probably the "Einfach mal machen" chapter, which may be translated as "just do it", inspired by policy innovations that were implemented rapidly during the pandemic and then the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. Or are they? I think in the end, this chapter shows how far these innovations are from CDU policy and Linnemann's thinking. Most of the 15 ideas presented in the chapter are not meant to be implemented rapidly as the "einfach mal machen" seems to suggests, but rather require complex bureaucratic reforms.
Linneman's proposal for climate policy is particularly disappointing. He suggests developing a global emissions trading systems. This is problematic on so many levels that it's difficult to figure out where to even start.
- Developing a global system with sufficiently high prices will take very very long, if it is possible at all, given that there is enormous political resistance to high CO2 prices and many countries will resist these efforts. We need to act now, not in 10 years.
- It is therefore the opposite of the "just do it" that Linnemann's book suggests it to be.
- Emissions prices are often not efficient in introducing new green technologies. Anthony Patt has calculated that adopting solar power in early 2000s Germany would have required CO2 prices of 900 € / ton (or something in that order) to be imposed on all fossil electricity generation, which would of course have been impossible. Feed-in tariffs were much cheaper and politically feasible, while now carbon contracts for difference seem to be among the most efficient instruments to decarbonise
steel production etc. These instruments are good examples of a just-do-it approach. Emissions trading is not.
- Experience with emissions trading schemes around the world so far has shown that they are implemented predominantly in sectors where emissions reductions are possible and relatively cheap. (Linnemann turns this causation around and claims that recent developments suggest that emissions trading is efficient. - No, it has been implemented only in sectors where reductions was feasible and relatively cheap.) Emissions trading as the major instrument in sectors with high abatement costs hasn't really been tried and is unlikely to be efficient.
Maybe it's too much assessment of a single point in the book, but I think this is quite illustrative of how alien the just-do-it mindset is to Linnemann and his party.
I also find it very disappointing that a apparently relatively pragmatic and modern politician presents this as his only proposal for climate policy, given that it will necessarily take many many years to implement it and achieve anything with it. All while there are instruments available now that can reduce emissions immediately or in the very near future.
To make this even more disappointing, Linnemann presents this policy and the reactions he gets for putting it forward as a problem in debating culture. As in, people accuse him of wanting to delay climate policy. The thing is, either he does not understand how long this will take to have any effect (though this requires only a rudimentary understanding of global climate policy and of emissions trading) or he really wants to delay climate policy. From what I can tell, there is really nothing else.
(Reminder on the 1-star rating: This means that I did not like the book, not that I think that it is terrible in every way.)
The book starts with a surprisingly negative assessment of state institutions and policy.
The core of the book is probably the "Einfach mal machen" chapter, which may be translated as "just do it", inspired by policy innovations that were implemented rapidly during the pandemic and then the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. Or are they? I think in the end, this chapter shows how far these innovations are from CDU policy and Linnemann's thinking. Most of the 15 ideas presented in the chapter are not meant to be implemented rapidly as the "einfach mal machen" seems to suggests, but rather require complex bureaucratic reforms.
Linneman's proposal for climate policy is particularly disappointing. He suggests developing a global emissions trading systems. This is problematic on so many levels that it's difficult to figure out where to even start.
- Developing a global system with sufficiently high prices will take very very long, if it is possible at all, given that there is enormous political resistance to high CO2 prices and many countries will resist these efforts. We need to act now, not in 10 years.
- It is therefore the opposite of the "just do it" that Linnemann's book suggests it to be.
- Emissions prices are often not efficient in introducing new green technologies. Anthony Patt has calculated that adopting solar power in early 2000s Germany would have required CO2 prices of 900 € / ton (or something in that order) to be imposed on all fossil electricity generation, which would of course have been impossible. Feed-in tariffs were much cheaper and politically feasible, while now carbon contracts for difference seem to be among the most efficient instruments to decarbonise
steel production etc. These instruments are good examples of a just-do-it approach. Emissions trading is not.
- Experience with emissions trading schemes around the world so far has shown that they are implemented predominantly in sectors where emissions reductions are possible and relatively cheap. (Linnemann turns this causation around and claims that recent developments suggest that emissions trading is efficient. - No, it has been implemented only in sectors where reductions was feasible and relatively cheap.) Emissions trading as the major instrument in sectors with high abatement costs hasn't really been tried and is unlikely to be efficient.
Maybe it's too much assessment of a single point in the book, but I think this is quite illustrative of how alien the just-do-it mindset is to Linnemann and his party.
I also find it very disappointing that a apparently relatively pragmatic and modern politician presents this as his only proposal for climate policy, given that it will necessarily take many many years to implement it and achieve anything with it. All while there are instruments available now that can reduce emissions immediately or in the very near future.
To make this even more disappointing, Linnemann presents this policy and the reactions he gets for putting it forward as a problem in debating culture. As in, people accuse him of wanting to delay climate policy. The thing is, either he does not understand how long this will take to have any effect (though this requires only a rudimentary understanding of global climate policy and of emissions trading) or he really wants to delay climate policy. From what I can tell, there is really nothing else.
(Reminder on the 1-star rating: This means that I did not like the book, not that I think that it is terrible in every way.)
May 18, 2024
Übernimmt politische Ansätze, Gedanken und Lösungsvorschläge, die bereits über die Jahre hinweg außerhalb der CDU stattgefunden haben und präsentiert sie als eine neue, noch nie dagewesene Sichtweise. Auf eine leicht zugängliche sowie freundliche Art ermöglicht das Buch dem Lesenden einen Einblick in Linnemanns Gedankenwelt und politischer Haltung, zu immer noch aktuellen Themen, zu verschaffen. Er nimmt gegenüber seiner eigenen Partei kein Blatt vor den Mund, weil er besser sein will als das, was die Partei aktuell ist. Dies wiederum macht ihn sympathisch. Ich verstehe wieso er bei den Wählern beliebt und ein starker Spieler für die CDU ist.
October 30, 2023
Messerscharfe Analyse und mindestens interessante Lösungsansätze. Sehr schön und leicht zu lesen. Eine Empfehlung für alle, denen etwas an diesem Land und seiner Zukunft liegt.
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