On Feb. 9, the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy approved, after even toughening it, yet another legal abomination of the European Commission.
There is really nothing to laugh about the action committed by three activists of the fanatical environmental group "Last Generation" by defacing Palazzo Madama's facade. Nor is it correct to engage in reductionism. The act is by no means derecognizable as "just a stupid thing."
We are once again trying to discover if green asceticism is possible. In order to comply with the European Union’s climate rules, the Dutch government has elected to buy up to 3,000 small farms across the country for the explicit purpose of shutting them down.
No longer is there the stern preacher shouting from the pulpit admonishing the people about the pains of hell, but colorful, toy-like apps. Even sin is different: from what displeases God to what displeases Greta. And, of course, in place of the church is the bank, the new Temple of the 21st century.
Human advancement came about through the transition from lower to higher energy density sources: from wood to coal and then to oil and gas. The next step would be nuclear power, but ideological opposition from environmentalists has taken over.
Credit cards with a double ceiling are becoming increasingly popular: the economic one and the "environmental" one, based on the so-called "carbon footprint" that each transaction would entail. A Pavlovian training system that could even become mandatory.
We would have to multiply electricity production more than tenfold to have the amount sufficient to power our country and its cars, if all electric. That is why stopping internal combustion engines in 2035 is basically unrealistic.
"Energy Sovereignty" is a book that serves to alert us to the challenges now and those to come, but it also tries to offer insights into seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The problems related to rising energy prices, although serious, are not insurmountable.
The green extremist movement founded in Berlin less than a year ago has established itself in Milan and Rome and is expanding to other cities in the Center-North. Exactly as in Berlin, where authorities when they do not minimize openly support, in Italy we see everything but condemnation.
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