This forest inspired fairy tales like the ones written by the Brother’s Grimm.

They call it the “Sleeping Beauty Castle.” Sitting on a hill in the middle of the Reinhardswald, an ancient forest said to be the inspiration for many of the fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm, the Sababurg is a lovely 14th century castle known for its magnificent rose garden and towers.

But we’re not here to see Sleeping Beauty or her castle in the central German state of Hesse. In fact, we’re standing with our backs turned to it. Ralf Paschold, a wind energy entrepreneur, points at a tree-covered ridge off in the distance.

“For the next 30 years,” he said, “I will produce energy there.”

Leftists do not care about history or nature, only power. This entire affair is symbolic because Germany’s history in the form of this ancient forest is to be sacrificed on the altar of Gaia. Caring for the environment is merely window dressing and wind turbines are symbols of conquest. The country’s elites closed down all of Germany’s nuclear plants and decided to press ahead with their renewable schemes by any means necessary.

Germany is already big on wind: with nearly 30,000 onshore wind turbines, the country trails only the US and China.

But it’s not enough to meet the country’s climate goals. Today, only 0.8% of Germany’s land area is approved for onshore wind energy. By 2032, the government wants to have 2% of land area allocated for onshore wind power. This means installing between 1,000 and 1,500 new turbines a year, or four to five a day by 2030, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently said.

Germany needs wind energy to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2045, a target it’s currently in danger of missing, according to multiple studies. The country also missed its emissions reduction targets the last two years in a row, according to think tank Agora Energiewende.

What should it matter that the wind turbines won’t meet the country’s goals? People don’t have enough energy for keeping the lights on and warming their homes? Too bad! You don’t really think we meant it when we said preserving forests was necessary to protect the planet did you? Suck it up because utopia is right around the corner. In their minds they’ve won and leftist elites will take their sweet time achieving net zero because the rules ultimately do not apply to them.