The money quote:
Europe is plunging itself into darkness so the ruling class can continue to play make believe.
That is fundamentally the issue. The ruling classes of the West no longer have some external measure against which they can gauge their piety. Christianity has long ago been purged from the ruling elites. The old moral framework of liberalism was abandoned out of expedience. What has filled the void is a weird, sterile aesthetic that seeks to remove all traces of the human condition. The so-called green movement is central to this cult of reality avoidance.
Reality does not go away when you stop believing in it. This is what Europe is now facing with their energy crisis. Next up is a food crisis. This is against the backdrop of the demographic crisis, which is another aspect of the same disease. The unwillingness of elites to accept biological reality has the same roots as their unwillingness to accept the economic reality behind the modern age. We are ruled by people at war with humanity because they cannot face the human condition.
Atlas Shrugged was not supposed to be a documentary. The lights will go out in Europe first, then America. Go ahead - dismiss this. Then we'll see.
I don't dismiss this in Europe, but believe in the ingenuity of Americans to feed ourselves and provide energy. Screw the world if they want this path towards destruction.
As the lights go out and food becomes scarce, the European Union will die by their own making. I vote we don't save them a 3rd time. It will be a race between China and America to buy up the farmland.