Uhh, the Germans are very clear about the horrendous mistakes they made leading up and during WWII.

For a nation in denial you should have a look at the Japanese...

Ah the days when umacs was the editor of choice, a large HD was a full 10MB and backing up required 70 floppies.

Yeah sure, but until it handles Linux it's fairly pointless to this discussion...

1 : Yes until a couple of years ago we had a fairly even distribution of wealth.
2a: See 1.
2b: The world over there is a documented correlation between income and height.
2c: Indeed, Dutch women have for generations been independent.

1 revisited, the Dutch public health system was since many years available to all and had from the beginning a strong emphasis on pre- and post natal care, including good nutrition for both mother and child.

We Dutch are not your 'most people'.

Interesting, esp. in the light of facts, the Dutch have the lowest per capita no. of teen pregnancies and use of antibiotics...

Ah yes, US centric but also for nerds and others close to science.
And science has little patience with that old fractured system.

Police officer Michael T. Slager, the name Slager is Dutch for Butcher...

As an outsider, i.e. non-USA, I'd say the perfect example of a trigger happy 'culture'.
Around here a copper would be done for disproportional violence just for pulling his gun or Tazer on an unarmed man.

Because I live on a continent where CO2 IS charged (as a tax) and investing in solar pays.

My calculations were based on € 0.23 per kWh and payback will be after seven years.

You'd be the perfect participant in one of those cooperative plants, get some similar people together + the owner of a large roof or piece of land and set up a generating facility as shareholders

And why would they, it's the result that counts.

But there are plenty of models to calculate one from the other.

While it's absolutely true you get better efficiency in the south you'd also see a rather high investment in transmission lines. Besides, having your (renewable) energy production geographically distributed is never a bad idea.

Coal power comes with a rather huge CO2 mortgage payable in the future and by all.

Look here, when first Italy and later Greece joined the union they had every chance to become prosperous.
Then there's just that little issue of you guys voting for parties that like to spend without first finding the income to do so.

Indeed the present German disposal sites suffered extremely bad management.
But there are several proposed sites that look really good if it wasn't for the usual NIMBY crowd (kraut?)