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Prices are up 100% compared to 2007 easily. So GDP being up less than that is a colossal failure.

GP comment said real per Capita GDP, that's adjusted for inflation.

Well you can look at the money but environmentally it's a disaster. Closing nuclear power plant was a mistake, reopening coal power plant is another. But I guess what's important is the economy...

If you look at the real data, you see that the loss of nuclear has nicely been covered by wind and solar: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

Energy is fungible

If you close a nuclear plant while a non-zero number of fossil fuel plants are still online, you don't care about emissions as much as you claim, regardless of what you replace them with.

Like the comparison with the US GDP which ignore debt completely