That it's already happening in Germany due to your stupid government https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/wirtschaftsblunder-why-germany-s-economy-is-flailing-and-what-could-help-a-c5047bf2-0c66-4a8a-bf62-e52baaef0acd
I am sorry, but could you be a bit more specific? That is many pages of text, and skimming through it, I didn't see anything that was fundamentally new to me, so I'm not really sure it's worth reading it all, and especially I am not sure whether I'd be any wiser as to what specifically you mean, or how that text supports your opinion.
If you just scroll through it, you'll notice infographics that German industrialization is down. Something in particular, for example:
That doesn't support your claim that we're "speedrunning self-destruction". Even if we assume that industrialization is down, that on its own says nothing about how things will continue from here.
If we just lost some extremely energy intensive industry, say, then it doesn't follow that therefore, most other industries will die. It might as well be that that's a handful of products that we'll buy elsewhere now, and nothing else changes.
Also, it doesn't even follow that current policy is bad. It might just as well be that the current lack of Russian gas combined with the extreme dependence on Russian gas that was caused by the policies of past governments caused the loss of some industries, but current policies will reduce energy prices in the future and thus keep the remaining industry alive just fine.
So, there is a lot more work for you to do to actually substantiate your claim.
As for your example quotes:
"Deindustrialization has begun," says Matthias Zachert, head of the chemical giant Lanxess, which is in the process of closing two plants in the city of Krefeld near Düsseldorf.
The German Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (BVMW) is reporting that almost one in five member companies is considering relocating at least some elements of production to sites abroad. Meanwhile, the chemical industry is warning of an industry exodus due to high energy prices. And a study commissioned by the Berlin-based think tank Dezernat Zukunft concludes: If the government doesn't do anything about the foreseeable high energy prices, the exodus of companies will cost Germany up to 120 billion euros in economic output – and 1.3 million jobs.
So, how do we know that these aren't just self-serving?
I mean, it's not exactly unheard of that industry will threaten to relocate or will just make exaggerated claims of problems they are facing in order to get subsidies, whether those are actually needed or not, or will claim that some political decision is the reason why they are shutting down some factory that they are shutting down for entirely unrelated reasons, in order to shift blame away from themselves, or possibly even to make politicians look bad that they'd like to see voted out.
As a result, of the nearly 14,000 kilometers of new power lines that the country needs, according to the government's own Federal Network Agency, only around 1,900 kilometers have been built to date. And because the inadequate existing lines are overloaded, as absurd as it sounds, wind turbines in the north often have to be disconnected from the grid. Valuable electricity is lost. Nevertheless, the plant operators receive billions of euros in compensation for the electricity that goes unused. In addition, there are high taxes and levies for electricity.
Now, this is an interesting one. Actually, this description is kinda missing the craziest part. The fundamental problem is that Germany has only a single electricity price zone. I.e., electricity, as traded on the exchange, costs the same, no matter where in Germany it is sourced and where it is delivered to. Now, when the grid capacity is insufficient to actually move the electricity, the source is throttled (as mentioned, often wind turbines in the north) but still paid for the electricity (because it's not their fault that the grid can't move the electricity that they've sold), and the electricity then is generated using power plants closer to the buyer, usually gas power plants. The (usually very high) costs of that generation then are paid via grid charges ("redispatch costs") that all electricity buyers have to pay. So, the buyer pays the cheap wind power price (sort of, it's actually the merit order price, but this usually happens when there is a lot of renewable generation, and thus the prices are low), but actually gets delivered gas power that's paid for with grid charges and that causes a lot of CO2 emissions. Also, it's not uncommon that pumped hydro storage plants in Austria are the buyers of this electricity, so, effectively, gas power from peaker plants is used to charge pumped hydro storage plants ... which makes no sense at all, really, as the gas peaker plants obviously could just supply power directly when the pumped hydro plants discharge later. If those plants were actually charged with wind power from the north, then that would actually be perfect, of course ... but that just doesn't work with the grid as it currently exists.
However, none of this is in any significant way the fault of what you called our dumb government, by which you presumably meant our current federal government. The problem that our grid is insufficient to move electricity along the north-south axis isn't exactly new, and that this problem is getting worse and worse with increasing renewables build-out is also not exactly surprising. In fact, planning of the conection started some ten years ago because of the obivous needs. But for some reason, conservative politicians in particular had lots of objections, and Bavaria in particular (traditionally has a conservative government since forever) didn't want to have any of it within their borders, and so, planning took a long time. Now, under the current federal government, construction finally started.
Also, the conservative government of Bavaria in particular has been hindering the construction of wind turbines with onerous requirements for a long time, which further worsens the problem, as there is little renewable power in the south when it's dark and windy. So, not only did they hinder the contstruction of the grid connection to deliver wind power from the north to the south, they also hindered construction of wind power in the south.
Well, and also, it is largely a result of conservative politics that we only have a single price zone in Germany. I mean, the obvious market-based solution would be to simply split up Germany into multiple electricity price zones, then electricity would be cheap in the north and expensive in the south, so there would be some incentive to build grid connections and generation capacity in the south. Instead, currently, people (and businesses) in the areas with lots of generation capacities and good grid connections are forced to pay for the crazy scheme that I described above, where they subsidize in particular gas power generation in the south that is necessary because of lacking grid connections to the south.
If there ever has been a federal government that is actively working on actually solving these problems rather than on sabotaging the build-out of renewables and grid infrastructure, it's the current one. While they are a bit of a shit-show, too, that's one of the things they are actually doing reasonably well, and certainly better than preceding ones.
Why do you think that it is insane? Like, do you understand why they are doing it? Can you explain why that's either a bad goal or why the approach that is chosen is not a good one? (And what I mean in particular is why they are doing it "for the environment", as I would think that that is not the fundamental motivation.)
Because surely unaffordable food prices and starvation of the poorest in the moment of crisis is more desirable than using a bit of fertilizer. And yet again, food production will move to places that do not care about pollution at all (because all people want to eat, doh) and be way less sustainable than what's currently in EU. Not to say importing food from thousand of kilometers away cases pollution by itself.
That doesn't answer my question, does it?