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
of europe and the united states to remember that in seventeen 1 eighty nine the french revolution broke out whe78n the people of paris could no longer afford to buy bread. that s well, where are we headed? are we headed into a position ha where our own population canwe h afford to heat itself and care for itself? wecaford to can t operate our c industrial infrastructure. i ths i think it s a very real challenge and i think it s going to hit europthink ite verd this winter. populations get radical when their standard of living moves backwards. people think things are getting better. the american dream we used to ti call ink ts ar t their they re hopeful,but wh but when they start sliding in the wrong direction, people, as you just noted, get crazy. is this a concern for boris johnson, macron or joe biden? ro e well, if it isn t a concern for the people in europe,ing el the ruling elites there like macron or rohloff schulz and others, itit should be because i think we re going