What ideology?

A point missing here is electing politicians who actively hinder development of renewables, which has an impact by magnitudes larger than all these individual decisions.

But currently establishment parties are losing ground to others (often right wing) so you‘d think they‘d come up with something, not directly to serve the people but to protect themselves. But they can’t and it’s likely because they don’t stand for anything other than status quo. Can’t survive in information age when you don’t have any message.

Plenty of catchy slogans to be made based on reality. Problem with majority of establishment parties is lack of motivation, they stand for nothing.

Why are there rarely counter-campaigns for all of these? Passivity of governments towards this is so weird. They occasionally mention banning social media and at the end just do nothing. Why not promote their views too.

Hundreds of millions? That might be exaggerating a bit.

Top irony is watching a journalist whining about how this “makes us dependent on China” because they sell infrastructure for renewables, as if it was not plainly our fault for having failed to, and obstinately continue to refuse investing in it, despite it being an obvious way to go for Europe.

Yeah, it is indeed external influence which somewhat competes with democracy. What’s really bad is the reaching of consensus within the government via mostly trust in designated experts, instead of the voters individually studying the topic.

Ok makes sense, we then have basically indirect influence of the majority via trust in smaller groups of designated specialists.

Ok and they still need majority vote.. often, at least? In which case there seem to be a lot of politicians who are just misinformed (if the lobbying has negative consequences), which doesn’t relate to lobbying specifically but their general decision making.

So mostly not a consequence specifically of lobbying, if the majority votes due to actual conviction. Rather of disinformation/laziness, which will affect non-lobby initiated proposals too.

The part with the smaller committees sounds anti-democratic. The later is a different problem (politicians being misinformed/lazy is not specific to lobbying)