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  "path": "/2026/02/04/germanys-chemical-reckoning-how-europe-is-dismantling-its-industrial-core/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T10:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://wattsupwiththat.com",
  "tags": [
    "Climate Economics",
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  "textContent": "The country’s chemical industry once symbolised the triumph of science, industry and energy harnessed in service of human progress. Its current decline symbolises something else entirely: the delusional triumph of ideology over physics and economics among policy elites. And, as ever, the twin disciplines will have the final word. As will chemistry.",
  "title": "Germany’s Chemical Reckoning: How Europe is Dismantling its Industrial Core"
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