europe is descending into poverty. did you know that? someone told you that? so the most advanced continent on the planet, the birthplacerta of western civilization,ce our civilization is getting much poorer very quickly. it s moving backward at high speed just a year ago,st ay europe was a modern place.ea for example, the overwhelminge r majority of europeans heatedwhle their homes with natural gas as modern people do in germany,l the continent s richest country, only about six percent of households, most of them6% o rural, heated with cord wood and you would expect that givena that again, germany is a moderna industrialny country with centrl heating and indoor plumbing and all the other trappings of a society that has moved beyonda the medieval period. year, only about six percent of germans used% of wood to heat their homes. but that has changed dramatically. demand for firewood in germany has risen so fast that there is none left to buy. you can t get it so desperate. ger
fossil fuels remain what they have always been the key to civilizatio remain. that is true now that has been true since homo erectus startede the first cooking fire in a cave nearly a million years ago. earlyso-called green energy is t close, is nowhere nearnowher replacing gas and oil and coal. it s measurable. we could have known this. anyone with 8th gradeoal. math skills could have figured oud have ft in about ten minutet we cannot replace fossil fuels with renewables or green energy. reble, green they must have known that when they told youy d otherwise, it was just posturing. it, it was childish and destrucd fantasy talk that apparently d fooled f millions of their citizens and millions of ours. the gree- n deal means what it always meant. it means poverty. ped the people pushing the green new deal must have known that all along. n they don t actually believe climate change is an imminenty i threat if they actuallevy beliee