Europe provoked its own destruction — with crises that threaten the entire West

Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises.

Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.

These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage.

Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth.

The global-warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and power generation.

Instead, elites have demanded catastrophic and near-instant “net zero” mandates.

That radicalism entailed transitioning to unreliable and costly solar and wind energy. Fuel and electricity prices then soared.

The green socialist elite cared little that shutdowns of nuclear, coal, natural gas and oil power generation would cripple industry, reduce living standards and impoverish Europe.

Germany, once the economic powerhouse of Europe, became a shell of its former self.

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The same efforts accelerated in the Obama and Biden years in the United States.

Both administrations sought to slash new fossil fuel production and use, without regard to the costs, dangers to the economy, or deleterious effects on the middle class and poor.

Second, for the last half-century, affluent Westerners embraced the idea that there were no normative lifestyles.

Often, they claimed nuclear families with two to three children were parochial and passé.

Children supposedly inhibited the lifestyles and aspirations of women.

Larger families, we were told, unfairly burdened upscale professionals with unneeded costs and offered biased and injurious models to gays, transgender people and single, childless men and women.

The result is that the fertility rate plummeted in the West, particularly in Europe (1.4) and the United States (1.6), to unsustainable levels.

Academia, the media, government, and foundations promoted these ideas of “empowerment” — despite the historical evidence that societies that cannot reproduce themselves age, ossify and finally implode.

The third horseman of the Western apocalypse was unrestricted and illegal immigration.

Again, the elites discarded a century of research and common sense that immigration into modern Western societies is only beneficial if it is legal, measured, diverse, meritocratic and met with robust efforts of the host to integrate, acculturate and assimilate foreigners.

The arrogant West scoffed at all that. Instead, it destroyed borders.

It welcomed in millions of impoverished and unaudited illegal aliens, many of them with little desire or ability to adopt the values of their hosts.

What followed were unsustainable social welfare entitlements, rising crime, social chaos and growing internal strife.