Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Where I agree with you is that certain windows are already closed, but hardly anyone wants to talk about it. My conclusion is that we have to think about the consequences of climate change just as much as about climate change prevention – currently, this is very asymmetrical.

That's true. This probably partly falls into the category of suppression, and then there is also a percentage of the population that denies the problem as a whole. Either because they lack the education to properly interpret the papers and statistics, or because other psychological factors come into play that prevent a distinction between facts and pseudofacts. Be that as it may, discussing with this group of people is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how well you play chess, in the end the pigeon knocks over all the pieces and struts around the board as if it has won.

Wait. It is not "one" who wants to phase out coal in 7 years, but the (private) producers. Politically, 2038 is the end. If the private sector wants to exit earlier now, there must be significant (economic) reasons for it.

Of course there are: Renewables have priority on the grid, coal power plants (which are actually designed for base and mid-load, i.e. 5000 to 8000 full-load hours per year) run de facto mainly as peak load or emergency reserves when the wind turbines are once again rather boring or in winter when demand is particularly high.

The overhead costs, which accumulate annually anyway, spread over the few full-load hours make coal power plants disproportionately expensive per kWh... the operators would therefore like to shut them down; the electricity should come from somewhere else or temporarily simply not at all more often. After all, that's not really their problem and nobody likes to make losses!

Only: the Federal Network Agency mandates that the coal plants be maintained and kept as emergency reserves... why actually if renewables are the best invention since sliced bread and can fulfill even the dampest heat pump dreams in the deepest winter?!

And CCS is politically rejected. The pitcher goes to the well until it breaks.

And by the way, our path is fatal for a completely different reason:
The foreign countries, at least the European ones and the guys from the States, are watching us.

When I tell people in Sweden what I had to pay for electricity in the meantime, they always get wide eyes. You can only laugh at the 30-40 cents higher fuel price there.
In the meantime, in Germany, you had to pay ten times (!!) as much for a kWh of electricity.

Unfortunately, we are currently not an international example of how it can work... but unfortunately the example of how it definitely goes wrong and leads to massive upheavals.
It's also very simply explained why it doesn't help. If we demand less gas, then it becomes cheaper... and then someone else uses more because they can afford more.

No one can tell me that Grandma Erna will sit under a wool blanket at 18°C again next winter when natural gas then costs 10 cents/kWh instead of 20.
No, then she will turn it back up to 21°C.

That's true. This probably partly falls into the category of repression, and then there's also a percentage of the population that denies the problem as a whole.

And then there are those who think that because they studied computer science, they know about technology and physics...

No one can tell me that Grandma Erna will be sitting under the wool blanket at 18°C again next winter when natural gas then costs 10 cents/kWh instead of 20. Nope, she will turn it up to 21°C again.

You don’t grant her that with the smaller pension than the average income here?

You don't wish her that with the smaller pension than the average income here?

If you take climate change seriously, Grandma Erna would have to keep the heating at 18°C. Period.

But that's where it already starts here.

You babble around the clock about heat pumps and getting out of fossil fuels. But Grandma Erna is supposed to keep burning gas because you wish it for her.
That doesn't fit together ;)

Meanwhile, the industry is going down the drain. Because they can afford it... this stupidity is heartbreaking.