Windmills, Sunlight, and the Death of Industry

Europe decided to jump headfirst into green fantasyland by nuking its fossil fuel infrastructure before wind and solar were even halfway ready, and surprise—it’s now colder, poorer, and dumber for it. Germany boasts the world’s priciest household electricity, the U.K. is unplugging data centers, and Scotland’s wind farm gets paid not to generate power because the grid can’t handle it. That’s not progress, that’s a Monty Python sketch with a carbon tax. They told voters the transition would be “cheap and clean,” but forgot to mention the “slow and broke” part. As jobs flee to energy-cheaper nations like China (where they burn more coal), Europe gets smug points but no factories. Even green cheerleaders are now begging to drill oil again while politicians juggle $3.5 trillion in “transition costs” like a drunk tightrope walker holding a live wire. And all this to maybe save a hypothetical polar bear in 2044 while real humans are freezing today. The only thing being reduced faster than emissions is Europe’s economic sanity. Visit the article to witness how saving the planet turned into strangling the economy with its own power cord.