Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem of 1797 warned of endless cultural terrorism arising from the French Revolution.
The contrasts between rich and poor are omnipresent – but no one really cares. Americans often live next to each other in villas and shacks. They don't know envy. This is one of the reasons why they are almost all so pleasantly apolitical.
If Europe, her borders, her values and her legal system do not physically resist this challenge, it will also mentally implode.
Like so much in this field, the official German Earth Day website is not only unintentionally funny, but also completely off the mark.
