Geert Wilders’ victory and the counter-revolution to the forced Green which cannot be allowed in Italy
Our newspapers, always monothematic, never capable of a global vision, with a few praiseworthy exceptions, have described the victory of Geert Wilders' PVV in the recent elections in the Netherlands as a sort of Renachist phenomenon against immigrants, who, among 'other, they even voted for it . No one has moved to make a more careful analysis of what is happening in Europe since it was decided to impose the green transition on the heads, and in the pockets, of European citizens.
In France, in a mainstream newspaper like Le Figaro , someone had this courage. Nicolas Beverez rightly stated that the victory of Wilders, who, in the meantime, is trying to build a centre-right government, is nothing other than the popular counter-revolution against the impositions of an ecologism imposed from above by a wealthy and privileged minority.
Let's see what he says:
These elections, which mark a historic turning point in the political life of the Netherlands, were marked by a referendum on European policy on immigration and ecology, embodied by Frans Timmermans, supporter of the "Green Deal". This referendum was lost. The Dutch uprising is a free warning that must be heeded. And this is all the more true because it happens after Giorgia Meloni came to power and is part of the wave of opposition to ecology in the developed world .
The ambitious European social and ecological policies, the Green Deal with its obligations, costs and deindustrialization imposed by the social-green left, are rejected at every democratic election. Yet it always remains as an "ambitious objective" and indisputable, never democratically examined. Let's continue:
In the United States, the Republican Party has shifted to radical hostility towards the ecological transition. In Europe, the revolt of the rural world – such as the mobilization of French farmers against the aberration of fallow in the midst of a food crisis – joins the protest of the impoverished urban middle classes. Everyone opposes the degrowth strategy which translates, in the most perfect opacity, into exploding food and energy prices, into creating a housing shortage, into authoritatively reducing mobility, into generating a sprawling bureaucracy that claims the right to regulate and control the lives of businesses and citizens down to the smallest detail. Today there is a direct clash between ecology and its acceptability by European citizens.
Incredible, a mainstream newspaper that confirms what we have been saying for some time: we are destroying the European economic and social fabric on the altar of dubious and probably useless ecological objectives, all without democratic sharing of responsibilities.
But now comes the best part:
In its desire to establish itself as a planetary leader in the ecological transition, the European Union has fallen into unreason, turning the “Green Deal” into an infernal machine. On the economic level, it locks Europe into a ruinous Malthusianism and organizes the relocation of industries, capital and qualified jobs to the United States, even if the Union's GDP represents only 65% of the American one compared to 91% ten years ago. Commercially, it amounts to a “Buy China Act,” as Beijing has built, with the help of subsidies and dumping, a virtual monopoly in renewable energy, batteries and electric vehicles. At a social level, it explodes inequalities and causes a significant part of the middle class to fall into precariousness and poverty. At a strategic level, through the taxonomy project and under the influence of NGOs supported by authoritarian empires, it is weakening the European defense industry at a time when the continent finds itself under existential threat from Russia. Politically, it weakens democracy and enriches the far right. Finally, from an environmental point of view, it is ineffective because the decline in emissions in Europe is more than offset by the cascade of openings of coal-fired power plants in China and India.
Europe's failure contrasts with the successes of the United States and China. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) combines reindustrialization, support for innovation, climate transition and stabilization of the middle class. For twenty years, China has intended to depend on the rest of the world for the production of equipment and goods vital to the decarbonization of the economy. Europe must draw inspiration from this to redefine its strategy. Rethinking it in a planetary framework and conditioning it on the efforts made by the other blocks. Moving away from unrealistic objectives and calendars to restore time and flexibility in technological choices. Focusing on production and innovation instead of regulations and taxes. Assessing and compensating economic impacts and social costs. Submitting it to the imperative of sovereignty and the defense of freedom. The ecological transition remains essential. But it will be done with the citizens or it won't be done.
That is, the argument is simple, banal: even admitting that the energy transition is true and necessary, it cannot be done in an austere framework of budget constraints, which forces us to sacrifice everything to invest in a green which, among other things , we do not produce and which forces us to import from an astute China which has developed the sector over the past 10 years. If the energy transition is necessary, then it must be done not by looking at a balanced budget, but by investing heavily in the energy sectors, but without taking away from others. Citizens cannot be forced to choose between pensions, hospitals and schools on the one hand and solar panels, electric turbines or nuclear power plants on the other . Citizens, who also look to tomorrow, but choose for today, will defend the minimum well-being they have and will send, frankly in a fair way, the ecological objectives to that country.
Also because these ecological objectives are actually a competitive advantage for those parties, India and China, which practically ignore them if not mock them. At this point the move is, as Beverez says, only Malthusian and self-destructive, and will only be possible if imposed with violence, physical or verbal.
Do we really want it?
Thanks to our Telegram channel you can stay updated on the publication of new Economic Scenarios articles.
The article Geert Wilders' victory and the counter-revolution to forced Green which cannot be admitted in Italy comes from Economic Scenarios .
This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-vittoria-di-geert-wilders-e-la-controrivoluzione-al-green-forzato-che-in-italia-non-si-puo-ammettere/ on Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:00:33 +0000.