Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises.

Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.

These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage.

Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth.

The global-warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and power generation.

Instead, elites have demanded catastrophic and near-instant “net zero” mandates.

That radicalism entailed transitioning to unreliable and costly solar and wind energy. Fuel and electricity prices then soared.

The green socialist elite cared little that shutdowns of nuclear, coal, natural gas and oil power generation would cripple industry, reduce living standards and impoverish Europe.

Germany, once the economic powerhouse of Europe, became a shell of its former self.

The same efforts accelerated in the Obama and Biden years in the United States.

Both administrations sought to slash new fossil fuel production and use, without regard to the costs, dangers to the economy, or deleterious effects on the middle class and poor.........

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