As gas prices are soaring in Europe, largely due to sanctions and inept planning, the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia advises the population on how to handle a total lack of heating in an educational video.

The video shows a thickly clothed elderly woman in an apartment with her breath frosting in the air. She proceeds to cover her windows with aluminium foil, then fashions an improvised tiny heating device from a flower pot and a few tea candles, inviting her neighbours in to share the heat. On average, winter temperatures in Germany reaches an average of -4C.

The video was made by the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, BBK).

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Postwar Germany at 357,000 sq. km. is a fraction of the size of Imperial Germany (541,000 sq. km) which just a little over 100 years ago challenged the industrial might and reach of the United States. Today, a truncated Germany is known to have the highest energy prices in Europe, with Germans paying triple what Bulgarians pay.

Another own goal by the Greens and the climate change cult: Germany has shut coal-fired energy plants and nuclear power plants in an effort to protect the country’s environment and reduce carbon emissions. German taxes on energy are also extremely high relative to other countries.

As winter approaches, there are worries that the poor and working-class Germans will not be able to afford to heat their homes, but they will be enjoying an environmentally nation.

An EU summit two weeks ago failed to properly address the issue of rising energy prices, with individual member states largely left to their own devices to handle the crisis.

Meanwhile in Romania’s third-largest city, Temesvár, one elderly man died in his home after the local central heating company went into insolvency and the man tried to warm himself at a gas cooker, leading to carbon monoxide poisoning.