Europe Doubles Down on Eco-Transformation

American Thinker ^ | 31 Mar, 2026 | Thomas Kolbe

[MtnClimber]

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

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,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; leftism

[MtnClimber]

They are speeding toward the cliff, They see the cliff, but they are not going to stop the foolishness.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation."

Less than five years remaining now. Tick tock. Wind and solar! Yeah! Who needs those dirty hydrocarbons and dangerous nuclear sites. Windmills for everyone. It's gre-e-e-e-e-n.

[MtnClimber]

It is like a cult.

[rdcbn1]

It looks like the biggest misallocation of resources since the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt built the Pyramids is going to continue at an accelerated pace in Europe.

[Socon-Econ]

And their economies are doubling-down on de-industrialization.

[FLT-bird]

This is obviously religion to these people. Their countries will have to crash and burn before the spell will be broken. By that time of course, it will be too late. They will be fully deindustrialized.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

empty gas storage in Germany

Every time anything Germany/energy is mentioned, I remind people that Germany TURNED OFF ALL OF THE ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY NUCLEAR POWER.

ALL OF IT

Meanwhile, the French, of all people, are building MORE nuclear power plants. They already produce a huuuuge percentage of their electricity generated with nuclear power.

In fact, when the woke Spanish electrical grid crashed recently, they received some assistance with electricity from, yes, the French.

[ConservativeMind]

Germany is enjoy its self-destruction.

I say the world should do everything to hasten it!

[yuleeyahoo]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "It is like a cult."

Yes, it is. One revisits Europe's "tulip mania" -- a period of some years of massive speculation in which many lost much. Wiki speaks of it, "generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble or asset bubble in history." Gre-e-e-e-n today is a mania, a mania driven by the speculators. Some will profit, and most will lose. In the end.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Germany is enjoy being led to its self-destruction." By Germans.

[oldtech]

That seems to be the way it looks. By now, anybody with a working thought process should realize what a loser in most every way that “green energy” is, but I still see many places leaning towards it thinking it will work better & cheaper for them. Maybe there’s a couple things they need to learn about electrical power distribution. They should read up about Spain relying on it & what they learned the hard way. I knew a little about it having taken a course in industrial electronics years ago, so I know now what happened in Spain’s case. Didn’t realize that people there (at least a few) weren’t educated about how power distribution works.