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
their own wood, scouring the forests like their ancestors for sources of heat. watch some in germany taking matters into their own hands, a solution that might look like a blast from the past about two hours outside berlin, residents of this small town have turnedre to wood chips for fuel clover deutschland. we have to be innovative, saidfr the project s organizer. if we don t act and just rely on the government to solve the crisis will never succeed. this burner will soon fuel most of this village of 60 people. . so they call it biomass. bu st that s what they re burnig wood again, as they did during the feudal period. that s germany. in poland, families are standing in line for days to buy coal. not in nineteen , ten right now. tonight, cars queued up outside coal mines hoping for fuel. this is beyond imagination. one fifty seven year old polish man told reuters people are sleeping in their cars. i remember the communist times, but it didn t cross my mind