
Chapter 13
Will This Work? Is It Realistic?
Thoughts and Acts of a Political
Practitioner with a Solar Vision
Hans-Josef Fell
Member of the German Parliament
13.1 My Way of Solar Thinking
In 1971, I had just gotten my high-school diploma. Shortly after,
we had the first oil-price crisis and the Club of Rome published
the Limits to Growth. As a young student I felt closely linked
to the rebellious, relieving, and questioning ideas of the German
student revolt of 1968 and I wondered how the problems of tighter
resources and destruction of nature could be overcome. I realised
quickly that one of the main dangers to our world was the use of
the fossil and atomic ...