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If RTL produces plagiarism, they think carefully about who they do it to. Find out who is really to blame for climate change.

Keyword Recycling, relative keyword copy-paste (it’s kind of the same thing): What we particularly like to pick on in other media are ideas that easily go straight to the head and straight to the stomach. Some would say „clichés“, but we say: the main thing is that you feel it.

Example climate-damaging coal burning: Who doesn’t have the feeling that this is the fault of the Chinese and Indians? Exactly. That’s why we also prefer to copy sentences like: „The development of the world’s extremely high coal consumption can be attributed primarily to countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. These five countries account for over 70 percent of global coal consumption, which is more than twice as much as at the beginning of the millennium.“

Left: RTL | Right: FAZ

Such small-minded journalists would probably now ask: But how much is that really per capita? Isn’t per capita consumption much higher in Western countries? Can a country of 60 million inhabitants really be compared to one of 1.2 billion? And readers are already fed up. Such things are not only unpleasant in terms of content, but also intellectually exhausting. Instead, simply: Feel the news!

Left: RTL | Right: FAZ

In this lucky case, we had copied an article by FAZ business correspondent Nikla Záboji. As already mentioned elsewhere: Anyone who translates a text word for word into Luxembourgish without telling the author anything about it, let alone paying for it or citing it as a source – that person is not committing plagiarism! Plagiarism would be a simple copy! Here it is translated. Besides, no one will notice, so plagiarism does not exist at all.

Left: RTL | Right: FAZ

The good man from the FAZ always makes the best preselection when it comes to topics. His entire text – and ours as well – is about a report from the International Energy Agency IEA. An organization that promotes fossil fuels and is also accused of torpedoing the energy transition. An organization that simply says when it comes to climate and energy: „keep it up!“ or „the others are to blame“. That feels pretty right – and that’s the main thing!