
Chapter 11
Initiating a Solar Revolution in Germany
Hermann Scheer
†
Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin; President of the Association EUROSOLAR,
Bonn and General Chairman of WCRE
Emancipation means liberation from mental and physical de-
pendencies so that people can go their own free way. Unless
this concerns merely one individual goal, emancipation must be
possible for everybody. This means: emancipation must be possible
for everybody—along the lines of the philosopher Kant’s central
directive, his “categorical imperative”: “Act only according to that
maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become
a universal law.” This imperati ...