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This Sunday, November 9, marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, that great symbol of the brutal repression and utter failure of Soviet Communism.
Communism survives only in North Korea and Cuba, although Cuba is reportedly looking to “putinismo” as a possible way out. Russian president Vladimir Putin has in fact provided useful historical service in reminding us of what was on the other side of the wall. His conspicuous pining for the Soviet good old days has prevented Communism from being shoved down the memory hole as a “noble experiment” that inexplicably went astray.
He has also, ironically, exposed the folly of Europe’s commitment to end the age of fossil fuels in order to save the world from capitalism.
Last weekend, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, the politically-corrupted body that is meant to assess climate science, released the final “synthesis” of its Fifth Assessment Report. The mainstream media duly trumpeted the IPCC’s “dire” warnings, but fewer and fewer individuals are listening.
That is not just because people have more immediate worries than how to achieve an emission-free world in 2100. It’s because those regimes most committed to combating climate catastrophe have wreaked the greatest policy fiascos, and nowhere moreso than in Europe.
It took considerable Gallic gall for President Francois Hollande – whose popularity is lower even than that of President Obama — to come to the Canadian Parliament this week and wag a finger at Prime Minister Harper over Canada’s climate policy record.
Intriguingly, this time five years ago, on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was also wagging a finger, but at the U.S. Congress. Frau Merkel lectured that inaction on climate amounted to a “Berlin Wall” of “short-sighted self-interest.” She wouldn’t dare to deliver that message today, and not just because Congress this week fell under Republican control.
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