Europe's Existential Threat Is Themselves
There was no gainsaying that.The existential threat wasn't the soaring temps, though. It was Europeans themselves.There was global mirth at the snarling and defensive reactions coming from the Continent, ferociously defending the lack of air conditioning in what we now know to be the civilized world, aka the United States. Even as the elderly, ill, and young alike dropped like flies from excessive heat and the entire western continent broiled in nearly unbearable misery just to prove...they could.Air conditioning, said a former French environmental minister, kills the planet.
- ▪There was no gainsaying that.The existential threat wasn't the soaring temps, though.
- ▪It was Europeans themselves.There was global mirth at the snarling and defensive reactions coming from the Continent, ferociously defending the lack of air conditioning in what we now know to be the civilized world, aka the United States.
- ▪Even as the elderly, ill, and young alike dropped like flies from excessive heat and the entire western continent broiled in nearly unbearable misery just to prove...they could.Air conditioning, said a former French environmental minister,
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Europe's Existential Threat Is Themselves Beege Welborn 4:10 PM | June 29, 2026 AP Photo/Michel Euler We've been watching Europe on the slide for a long time here, with their curious blend of elitist arrogance, authoritarian impulses meeting serfish mentality, all the while wallowing in perpetual denial that any of their choices are not only ill-advised, but flat-out wrong. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Things are fine in Europe, the Euros insist, and the only ruffles making ridges are outside forces seeking to discommode their halcyon, well-ordered existence from jealousy and ignorance springing out of innate inferiority.Nothing has brought all the themes plaguing…
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