Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its “power players of the year” — for, in the publication’s words, “advancing Europe’s green agenda.”
“By invading Ukraine and manipulating energy supplies to undermine European support for Kyiv, Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental matter of European security,” the news outlet explained approvingly.
It went on to note that Putin “invaded Ukraine after the EU had spent two years laying the foundations of its Green Deal program for zeroing out emissions by 2050. That meant the policy machinery for a total remake of the European energy economy was already moving. All it needed was a nudge.”
You would have to be pretty severely afflicted with Climate Change Derangement Syndrome to celebrate a silver lining in Putin’s murderous attack on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Europe has sprinted so far ahead of the United States in its quest to end the use of fossil fuels that many U.S. politicians, environmentalists and media voices look on with envy.
But how is Europe’s Green New Deal going now that Putin has given it “a nudge”?
So far, the results are, to say the least, unencouraging. Euroland has been thrust into an epic energy crisis with electricity rationing, power outages, $10 a gallon gas and citizens encouraged by governments to use candles for lights and burning wood for heating purposes. Germany is reopening shuttered nuclear plants to avoid perpetual blackouts. It’s a return to the Dark Ages in Europe — and the climate change lobby is loving the return to chaos and mayhem.
This might be a slight exaggeration, but not much of one. The government in France has now warned of acute energy shortages this winter with drastic steps to conserve. As one publication put it, Paris, the City of Lights, may have to turn off the lights in the weeks and months ahead if it’s a cold winter.
Officials in Paris have decreed that local authorities must prepare power outage plans “that would reduce consumption of electricity by up to 38%.” Wait, there’s more: “The French government said it was working alongside the Ministry of Education to develop plans to close schools in the mornings if the area is to be impacted by rolling blackouts.” It sounds to me like climate change is the new COVID-19 for militant lockdowns and curfews.
Germany’s energy shortage is so severe that one of the fastest-growing energy sectors is coal. That’s because the Germans have declared war on natural gas, so because of the self-inflicted energy crisis, they are forced to use an energy source that emits more greenhouse gases. Wood is also becoming a major source of heating homes. The Dark Ages are back.
Then there is the calamity that is unfolding in Switzerland. This is a country that is anything but a heavy-handed socialist state, but now thanks to the “energy state of emergency,” which is the norm in Europe, the Swiss government has announced it will ban the use of electric cars for “nonessential” journeys. At the same time, it is encouraging people to take the train to shop for their groceries, but it has admitted that train service may also be disrupted.
That’s not all. The government is also drawing up plans for dealing with blackouts that include reducing store hours by up to two hours per day, heating systems in nightclubs to be turned off and other buildings to be heated to no more than 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Online streaming services and game consoles could be banned. Christmas lights might be turned off, and all sports stadiums and leisure facilities could be closed.
Is Europe turning into a third-world banana republic?
All of this brings us to a stark reality. Europe has gone all-in on wind and solar power, and the experiment has failed miserably. These fringe energy sources don’t work and aren’t scalable for industrial economies. And the more it doesn’t work, the more it requires police state interventions with fascistic controls over the economy and personal behavior. All of these assaults on freedom and prosperity are in the name of saving the planet. One wonders if this is the real endgame objective. The old saying that the greens are the new reds (communists) is proving to be all too true. It’s a future that only tyrants like “man of the year” Putin could love.
Worst of all, President Joe Biden’s administration and green groups look to Europe as a sterling silver model for America. Biden’s climate henchmen even want to move to the left of Europe on climate change controls on our economy. Biden boasted at the climate conference in Egypt last month that he wants the U.S. to sprint ahead of the Europeans on climate controls as if there is virtue in imposing pain and lowing living standards on the public.
In other words, we are speeding over the same cliff of energy poverty, power outages and climate lockdowns that have crashed and burned everywhere else. The calamity is staring in front of us. And the Biden administration is saying faster, faster.
The European(Soviet) Union was only the beging because they want t o do it with America the North American(Soviet)Union but first t hey have to open up the Border disarm us and open up all Private Property to the so called refugees its the CFR and UN/Globalists behind it with Soros as a Financer and supporter
The Left (Labor and the lunatic greens) government in Australia is heading in the same direction. Our idiot MPs believe they will be able to have all our power generated from ‘renewables’ in no time at all. they ignore how it isn’t working in other countries. they are out to ‘save the planet’ at any cost Too bad it is the everyday Aussies who will suffer.
Sri Lanka should have been a warning.
They’re too busy celebrating the 2nd coming of the bitch Brittany Griner (someone that no one had heard of until her arrest.)
They may have gone all green and post-modernists but, with a cold winter, they will learn the hard way that reality is a harsh mistress against which their cloud koo-kooland narratives are meaningless.
I WOULD GUESS THAT THIS Is Pay back time, what do they all have in common ? hate and endless recrimination and the establishment of an elected body of Elitist ( All with similar values and agendas), Scary and this is just the start ( The US elected a President with a platform of social and financial destruction and self hate) And on top of that he was diagnosed with early stages of Dementia./he had a 50 yr. record of lying ,deceit and corruption.
truly disgusting that so FEW can cause so much PAIN and SUFFERING for so many! Maybe NOW people will understand WHY they NEED to TAKE YOUR GUNS!!!
It will be interesting to see how the EU handles any “warm” mussles!!
The world is in turmoil, and it is going to last for a number of years.
Have no concern. All is going as per plan. The Military-Industrial-Political-Communications complex will survive and thrive. Brushfire wars are underway in half dozen or more regions to keep the Complex comfortable while impoverishing the public pawns via taxation, inflation, disease hoax lockups, and advances in techniques of improperganders of reality and gaslighting with flatulence as fuel. ***
We, as docile dolts will accept this degradation as a measure of our more efficient civilization.
Like Nero, we’ve gone foetal as we roam looking for lights at night.
The West is now thoroughly at war with itself, punishing prosperity and shaming our achievements. Withou any assistance from third world bullies and fanatics, our “leaders” are a sniveling disgrace. They imagine their own greatness, but they have sawdust for brains. We are on our own in a whirlwind of catastrophe. Our votes mean nothing, our fears are ignored, and our wealth is circling the drain.
Biden, Obama, Clinton(Both of them)and Biden all Democrats and Traitors and make that Liberal Democrats and Globalists
This is simple folks. Repeat after me…
The only good Biden is no longer breathing American air!!
Ahem. It’s not that France is running out of electricity.
Their electricity is just going elsewhere… into the huge energy-guzzling Maw just across the border at CERN.
Here it is, from the mouth of the beast itself:
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At peak consumption, usually from May to mid-December, CERN uses about 200 megawatts of power, which is about a third of the amount of energy used to feed the nearby city of Geneva in Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) runs during this period of the year, using the power to accelerate protons to nearly the speed of light.
That’s a lot of electricity – where does it come from?…. In the 1970s, a line was installed to connect a new substation on the French side of CERN to an interconnection substation 35 kilometres to the west. This substation is part of the European network. The French station now powers all of CERN.
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Thus, French citizens have to go without power. Priorities, you know.