Why Europe Can’t Quit Climate Alarmism

While America gets richer, Europe doubles down on its failing climate strategy.

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Members of the European Parliament attend a session to vote on legislation to cut import duties for U.S. products in Brussels, March 26, 2026.

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Even as Democratic activists in the U.S. cool to the cause of climate alarmism, environmentalism maintains its political and economic grip on policymakers on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Years into a cost-of-living crisis, why is the European Union still so green?

It may be easy to dismiss this as a case of fanaticism: Sure, American progressives may perhaps not have been truly sincere when they proclaimed their faith in the upcoming apocalypse and the gospel of Greta Thunberg, but maybe her fellow Swedes — and other Europeans — are true believers?

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John Gustavsson

John Gustavsson is a writer from Sweden and holds a doctorate in economics. He is Senior Editor of Nation & Citizenship at Restoring the West and a former adviser to the Sweden Democrats in the European Parliament.

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