Avril Doyle of Ireland — who, based on my past interaction with her, I would describe as an otherwise generally sound Member of the European Parliament – offered another in a series of flagrant admissions and warning flags that Americans should heed and so avoid doing something reckless and damaging to ourselves.

As reported in Greenwire (subscription required), she suggested the possibility of a trade war against countries reluctant to adopt the spectacularly successful EU Emissions Trading Scheme – a form of which all three of our candidates for president endorse:

“‘[The trade war option is] very much Plan B,’ said Doyle. ‘We don’t even want to discuss it. . . . It’s just on the top shelf there so the rest of the world knows we’re not going to destroy our economies without them coming on board and helping us.”

Now, we know the EU’s Kyotophilia has made them all millionaires from selling windmills to each other. So why in the world would Ms. Doyle say such a thing?

Oh well. Let’s “destroy our economy,” too — for fellowship’s sake, at least. It would be a folly completely unburdened by any promise of impacting our cooling global climate, to be sure — but, as Cyrano might say, “what a gesture!”