NEUSS, GERMANY — While the U.S. is working on its industrial comeback, the EU/Europe holds course, perfecting its climate socialism. In the Netherlands, we can see in practice what this really means. Without keeping you in suspense too long, it’s once again about behavior control through soft climate moralism.
When we look at the civilizational development of societies, two basic patterns emerge. On one side is the free society — decentralized, subsidiarily organized, and sustained by individual responsibility. Opposite stands its antagonist: a centralized power structure built on control, planning, and regulation. Despite lip service to freedom, the EU/Europe has firmly embraced centralized control.
Climate Moralism As a Gravitational Force
Centralized statist powers have a limited half-life. The rise and fall of tyrannical regimes are best understood through examples like the Soviet Empire, the Third Reich, or the many socialist projects of the 20th century. Faced with their inherent economic decline, the elites of these decaying bodies respond aggressively with increasing control, interventionism, and an unraveling media apparatus tasked with stabilizing the falling regime narratively.
It is therefore unsurprising that Brussels’ central EU body targets its weak spot media-wise: the continent’s raw material and energy scarcity. The fading postcolonial phase reveals Europe’s Achilles’ heel. Its ability to extract scarce resources in a controlled way dwindles alongside the rising emancipation of the Global South. (RELATED: Europe’s Energy Suicide: Brussels Trades Industry for Ideology)
EU/Europe Relies on Propaganda
The geopolitically remarkable expulsion of France from its former uranium colonies is telling evidence of this thesis. Nigeria was the political power turning point quietly glossed over in Europe. Building on this, one can say that the Europeans’ climate agenda, historically branded as the “European Green Deal,” aims to address this problem. It attempts to remove from the engine room of the global economy exactly those energy carriers Europe lacks — oil and gas. (RELATED: Germany’s Suicide Pact with Green Ideology)
To avoid negotiated solutions, repression and conflict management dominate both internal relations and diplomacy. Laws like the heating act, CO2 taxation, and the legally mandated phase-out of gasoline and diesel engines are building blocks of this agenda. Externally, European interventionist policies have left long-lasting ethnic conflict lines, from the Middle East to Kashmir, all legacies of Europe’s colonial era.
The climate propaganda, which reached its temporary peak through the media hype around Fridays for Future and Greta Thunberg’s loud appearances, aims to mask massive intrusions into our individual freedoms and privacy, psychopolitically anchoring the urgency of a frugal revolution in a shrinking economy.
The spectacle takes an interesting turn once control systems leave the phase of media and narrative stabilization and move into the practical implementation of their centralist agenda. What was previously mere discursive groundwork — a seemingly pluralistic debate — now reveals itself as a stepping stone for a power complex no longer seeking democratic approval but acting with dogmatic argumentation and societal dictatorship.
At the start of the implementation phase, the central body is forced to kick off societal transformation with flagship projects that set accents radiating onto the economy and society. This can seem downright bizarre, as centrally planned societal distortions resist the very nature of civilizational development and increasingly clash with people’s lived realities.
The Merwede Project
There are plenty of examples. Think wind turbines in forests or heavily subsidized solar parks where farmland once was. In the Dutch city of Utrecht, more precisely in the newly planned district Merwede, a visionary eco-neighborhood for 12,000 residents is to be built on a former industrial site — naturally, almost car-free and managed by a municipal mobility company. Private cars are banned in the core area, with exceptions rationed.
Only three parking spaces per ten households are planned, supplemented by a publicly organized car-sharing scheme. Instead of individual mobility, an orchestrated coexistence of bike racks, pedestrian pathways, and administrative traffic access will dominate. Merwede symbolizes a new phase of urban planning: ecologically charged, centrally designed, with the aim not just to create living space but to shape residents’ behavior according to the preferences of city council ideologues, parties, and their “think tanks.”
The project is backed by a consortium of seven owners, chief among them the city of Utrecht, which owns about one-third of the land and acts simultaneously as regulator and co-investor. Under the name “Merwede5,” private developers (secured by sovereign wealth funds) pool their interests, while the city profits from land sales tied to its planning. About 7 million euros flow into the mobility concept — partly to subsidize car-sharing offers, partly to cushion expected losses. Overall, financing remains vague, typical of grand central-planning visions.
The Merwede project fits seamlessly into the identity-politicized eco-agenda of a city that has aligned itself with the U.N. sustainability goals for years. It promotes an urban eco-experiment closely tied to the European Green Deal, without transparent Brussels involvement. NGOs, research institutions, and local partners complete a network that replaces democratic control with stakeholder-driven processes.
Green Suburb as Indoctrination Program
What is sold as a visionary neighborhood of the future is, upon closer inspection, a manual for subject breeding. Merwede in Utrecht creates no urban freedom but a controlled experiment in ecological thought control. Those demanding individual mobility — a natural right in a free society — face restrictions and collective sharing schemes. The private sphere is tightly fenced under planned economy principles; life design becomes a publicly administered service. “Sustainability” serves as a Trojan narrative masking social steering and behavioral mandates. The green corridors may bloom, but individual freedom withers. Merwede isn’t a model — it’s a warning. A future where life is controlled, not lived.
This stark contrast to the U.S. today, where people passionately seize their freedom, push through tax cuts, and trim the state apparatus, is striking. The climate lobby’s orchestrated mindset work feels detached from reality, even infantile in its greenish hue. It distances itself maximally from the lived reality of the majority of productive people who depend existentially on individual mobility. Merwede remains a damp green dream of morally and financially privileged heirs, green hipsters comfortably nested in NGOs close to the state, and moralizing retirees who believe their actions serve society but end up strangling its breath.
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