德国工业巨头倒闭| 能源灾难引发行业混乱

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近几十年来，德国在经济上取得了巨大的成功，比如制造了人人都想买的豪华汽车和高科技产品。 他们非常擅长，通过向其他国家的人们出售东西赚了很多钱，而且他们的政府也有很多现金。 人们甚至写书讲述德国如何正确行事。

但事情已经改变了。 现在，德国在世界经济中表现不佳。 这是富裕国家中最差的国家之一。 国际货币基金组织和欧盟表示，德国经济今年将萎缩。 这一切都始于俄罗斯入侵乌克兰并停止向德国提供廉价天然气。 这损害了需要大量能源的德国工厂。

德国民众对此十分担忧。 他们担心自己的国家可能会失去工厂和良好的就业机会，因为那里的生产成本太高了。 德国一家大型化学公司的老板表示，德国可能不再是工业强国。 他从豪华的办公室往外看，看到了曾经很重要但现在不再重要的旧工厂和矿山。

现在，曾经煤矿弄脏一切的地方正在变得干净。 他们有风力涡轮机和绿地而不是污染。 但失去廉价的俄罗斯天然气损害了德国经济。 他们甚至不得不要求一家公司维持一座旧发电厂的运转，因为他们没有足够的能源。

那家公司正在努力改变现状。 他们将使用天然气，也许还有氢气，而不是肮脏的煤炭来制造东西。 他们希望到 2030 年能够改善环境。但目前，德国由于境外发生的情况而陷入困境。

引起很大争议的一个想法是，政府是否应该对工厂转向清洁能源时的电费设置限制。 这个想法是由绿党副校长罗伯特·哈贝克提出的，但并不是所有人都喜欢。
德国总理奥拉夫·舒尔茨和他的自由民主党朋友认为这是一个坏主意，环保人士也认为这会让我们更长时间地使用肮脏的能源。

但我们之前谈到的那家大型化学公司的老板克里斯蒂安·库尔曼（Christian Kullmann）认为这是一个很好的计划。 他表示，政客的错误决定导致了能源价格高企，德国企业和工人为这些错误付出代价是不公平的。

自 2021 年以来，天然气价格翻了一番，这给需要天然气来制造玻璃、纸张和汽车零部件等产品的公司带来了麻烦。 此外，作为德国最大贸易伙伴之一的中国，经济状况也不再那么好。

所有这些问题都表明，德国存在一些在美好时期没有注意到的问题。 他们不太擅长在政府和企业中使用技术，而且批准清洁能源项目需要很长时间。

德国在农村的道路、火车、互联网等方面也不花钱，所以他们之前就有多余的现金。 依赖俄罗斯供应天然气也是一个错误，尤其是北溪管道，该管道因战争而关闭。

现在，建造风力涡轮机真的很困难，因为人们不希望它们靠近自己的家。 将该国南部地区风力发电的项目甚至严重推迟。

与此同时，美国正在向想要投资清洁能源的公司提供大量资金，这让德国嫉妒并担心他们落后了。 因此，每个人都在竞相拥有最好的新技术来赚钱并帮助国家发展，而德国正在努力找出如何跟上的方法。

但到底是什么原因导致德国经济持续下滑呢？ 俄罗斯廉价天然气的流失加剧了这一问题，但繁荣时期做出的决定也受到质疑。

就业机会充足、政府金库膨胀、而其他欧洲国家却苦苦应对债务的日子已经一去不复返了。 德国甚至被视为其他国家效仿的典范。

如今，国际货币基金组织和欧盟都预测德国今年将萎缩。 这次经济衰退是在俄罗斯和乌克兰之间的冲突以及随后莫斯科廉价天然气的流失之后发生的。

这对德国能源密集型产业造成了严重冲击，而这些产业长期以来一直推动着欧洲制造业的发展。 突然的经济表现不佳引发了一系列关于未来发展方向的批评、辩论和分歧。

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In recent decades, Germany enjoyed lots of economic success, like making fancy cars and high-tech stuff that everyone wanted to buy. They were so good at it that they made tons of money by selling things to people in other countries, and their government had a lot of cash. People even wrote books about how Germany was doing things right.

But things have changed. Now, Germany is not doing so well in the world economy. It's one of the worst among rich countries. The International Monetary Fund and the European Union say Germany's economy is going to shrink this year. This all started because Russia invaded Ukraine and stopped giving cheap natural gas to Germany. That hurt Germany's factories, which need a lot of energy.

People in Germany are really worried about this. They're afraid that their country might lose its factories and good jobs because it's getting too expensive to make stuff there. The boss of a big German chemical company says Germany might stop being an industrial powerhouse. He looks out of his fancy office and sees old factories and mines that used to be important but aren't anymore.

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Now, the place where coal mines used to make everything dirty is becoming clean. They've got wind turbines and green areas instead of pollution. But losing the cheap Russian gas hurt Germany's economy. They even had to ask a company to keep an old power plant running because they didn't have enough energy.

That company is trying to change things. They're going to use gas and maybe hydrogen instead of dirty coal to make stuff. They want to be good for the environment by 2030. But for now, Germany is in a tough spot because of what's happening outside their borders.

One idea that's causing a big argument is whether the government should set a limit on how much factories can be charged for electricity while they switch to clean energy. This idea is proposed by Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck from the Greens Party, but not everyone likes it. 
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his friends from the Free Democrats think it's a bad idea, and so do environmentalists who say it would keep us using dirty energy for longer.

But Christian Kullmann, the boss of that big chemical company we talked about earlier, thinks it's a good plan. He says that bad decisions from politicians caused the high energy prices, and it's not fair for German businesses and workers to pay for those mistakes.

Gas prices have doubled since 2021, and that's causing trouble for companies that need gas to make things like glass, paper, and car parts. Plus, China, one of Germany's biggest trade buddies, isn't doing so well economically anymore.

All these problems show that Germany has some problems it didn't notice during the good times. They're not very good at using technology in government and business, and it takes forever to approve clean energy projects.

Germany also didn't spend money on things like roads, trains, and internet in the countryside, and that's why they had extra cash before. Depending on Russia for gas was also a mistake, especially with the Nord Stream pipelines, which were turned off because of the war.

And now, it's really hard to build wind turbines because people don't want them near their homes. There's even a big delay in a project to bring wind power to the southern part of the country.

Meanwhile, the United States is giving lots of money to companies that want to invest in clean energy, and that's making Germany jealous and worried that they're falling behind. So, everyone is competing to have the best new technologies that make money and help the country grow, and Germany is trying to figure out how to keep up.

But what is causing the continued plummeting of Germany’s economy? The loss of cheap natural gas from Russia has contributed to the problem, but the decisions made during the prosperous years are also being questioned.

The days are gone when jobs were abundant, and the government's coffers swelled, while other European nations grappled with debt. Germany was even held up as a model for others to follow. 

Today, both the International Monetary Fund and the European Union predict Germany will shrink this year. This downturn came in the wake of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the subsequent loss of cheap natural gas from Moscow. 

This was a severe jolt to Germany's energy-intensive industries, which have long driven Europe's manufacturing sector. This sudden economic underperformance has sparked a flurry of criticism, debates, and disagreements about the way forward.