Coal use is up: https://www.dw.com/en/coal-and-fossil-fuel-share-of-german-e...

Gas use is also up, at 400 €/MWh that goes to a dictator who is overtly planning invasion of Eastern Europe. The southern part of which is rapidly becoming a desert: https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/desertification-of....

This is not brave, or principled, or sophisticated. It's a death toll with slightly higher plausible deniability.