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Europe Doubles Down on Eco-Transformation

In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation. 

Thomas Kolbe | March 31, 2026

Pressure generates counterpressure. In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation. Politics lacks the imagination for a real energy crisis scenario. Civil society submits, nearly paralyzed, to its fate.

Anyone who expected that empty gas storage in Germany and the escalating energy crisis in Iran would silence the green lobby in the country must think again. The political representation and its media apparatus -- the extended arm of the green crony system -- fight with all means to preserve the green transformation complex, regardless of the force with which the waves of reality now crash against the thin green dam.

While economists and business associations worldwide foresee a new energy price shock -- with the potential to derail the global economy -- solutions to the mercantile bottleneck at Hormuz barely emerge from Berlin’s intellectual narrowness.

On the contrary: On this side of ideologically dismantled infantilism, political elites focus primarily on the survival of their power construct -- the Green Deal.

Much is at stake: hundreds of billions of euros in subsidies are already earmarked for the coming years to flood the rapidly drying channels of the chronically insolvent art economy. Politics benefits -- it is a pillar of power, a vestibule of its own ideology, and if needed, an alternative career path for strong NGO lobbyists.

The response to rising energy prices is telling: the federal government rebrands the Heating Act for media effect, yet successfully defends the incentive and cost structure of this legislative expropriation program for homeowners. It clings rigidly to the grotesque fuel taxation (one can always switch to electric cars, the Environment Minister suggests) while Brussels rhetorically softens the path to an emission-free unicorn economy only marginally.

At the end of the day, everything remains unchanged. As Brussels so eloquently puts it: only green transformation will successfully shield us from crises like the current Iran affair.

A nearly diabolical inversion of causality -- and an assault on the reason of the still attentive segment of the public that has not yet recoiled in horror from this policy.

Rosneft Germany is exempted from the American embargo. This remains the only measurable result indicating a political will to avert a total systemic collapse.

And indeed, that is exactly where things are heading, should the crisis in Iran drag on longer than currently priced into the commodity markets -- which, so far, have reacted comparatively mildly.

As the saying goes: even civilized societies are always only two missed meals away from chaos. And energy -- a steady, secure, and affordable stream of this life force -- is the very foundation of what we call civilization.

Probably even Jürgen Trittin, Friedrich Merz, and Walter Ulbricht would agree.

Ursula von der Leyen and Friedrich Merz conjure the illusion of sovereignty and reform readiness before the public in dealing with the now-exploding energy prices. One of the largest media-political camouflages Germany has witnessed on its own soil since the continuous propaganda of the collapsing GDR regime.

It must be emphasized: it was the fatal trio of Brussels, Berlin, and Paris -- which, in coordination with the London representation -- primarily maneuvered Germany into this situation: Germany, the problem child, which, in the barbaric intoxication of the overfed degrowth cult, even destroyed its own nuclear energy.

Now, Germany sits between chairs, in maximum conflict with Russia, which is, cynically enough, set to turn off the gas tap itself.

 At the same time, it is cut off from supplies from Qatar, which, under force majeure, temporarily withdrew from the gas market for several weeks and is already irritated by Brussels’ climate mandates and regulatory mania.

It remains the Brussels attitude to bite the hand that feeds you.

Political infantilism and ideological rigidity have made Europe dependent precisely on the politician it despises most in EU capitals: Donald Trump.

Over 96% of Germany’s LNG deliveries last year came from the U.S., which itself experienced delivery difficulties caused by the bitterly cold winter. You know, global warming, which now contributes to colder winters.

Oh, the irony of the climate gods, striking the European Union like a thunderbolt.

A political feat that, under normal societal conditions, should -- by now -- force a rethink.

Rational politics would now buy time. Secure deliveries, no matter the source, at any cost.

A lesson from history, but for modern Europeans apparently arcane knowledge: energy-weak combatants with a heterogeneous social body should stay off the battlefield.

At the same time, the brakes applied in climate frenzy and as indulgences for building the green crony system to the max should be released.

Fracking must happen. Europe must tap all gas reserves capable of supplying the continent with reliable base-load energy for decades. Only then could a window of opportunity open. Scaled gas use would create room to step heavily into the most modern form of nuclear energy and reposition geostrategically. This will take years; a rapid escape from the energy catastrophe is impossible, neither economically nor physically.

Hovering above it all is a single number, the Damocles sword of European energy policy: 60% of energy needs must be imported.

Stepping back to illustrate the societal phenomenon: under the Green Deal, a highly complex web of politically proliferating environmentalism has emerged -- a highly opaque yet extremely effective redistribution machine. Supported by decades of cultivated green moralism, widely accepted in the population -- or at least hardly questioned until now.

In this way, an extraction mechanism has emerged that systematically siphons wealth from the productive machinery of society. This wealth is channeled precisely into the green parasitic system, which can proliferate in the shadow of political programs and moral justification without facing significant resistance.

Over time, a state within the state has emerged, its structures deeply grown into economic and institutional fabrics. This entity now seems to be entering a new phase -- one of exponential weakening of its host body. Rising energy prices, which over the long term translate into higher inflation rates, are a symptom of the host’s weakening.

Among the most visible actors of the green extraction apparatus is the Deutsche Umwelthilfe. Known for its strikes against Volkswagen, this group has flourished in its battle against German industry for years.

TE author Holger Douglas painted the ideal portrait of this quirky and yet extremely dangerous ideological monster, carving a path of industrial destruction through the German judiciary.

Their latest success against Germany’s energy supply: an injunction halting operations at the Mittelplate offshore oil platform, active since 1987.

As noted, these are small strikes against existing energy infrastructure. But what matters is the sum of attacks and their lasting impact. For decades, they have devastated Germany’s energy market design, leaving the country fragile and dependent on third-party suppliers.

At the same time, civil society takes cover from the approaching storm, showing decreasing resilience to ideological politics.

This Sunday, we will likely witness a unique political event. Ironically, those forces -- Greens and CDU -- who ideologically and politically orchestrated this catastrophe will claim victory in the heart of the green cult, Baden-Württemberg.

The only remaining question: who will wear the crown of the green ruler without industry?

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