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An annual two-week luxury climate negotiation excursion for nearly 25,000 government diplomats, bureaucrats, and environmentalists in Bonn, Germany ended on November 17.

Leaders from around the world have assembled in Bonn, Germany to celebrate their abysmal failure to meet the carbon-dioxide emissions reduction goals established under the Paris climate agreement in 2015.

Obama is gone. The “green queen” Angela Merkel is struggling over coal. Britain is brexiting the green EU. Japan is silent, while China and India burn coal like crazy. Russia never did care. And so it goes.

During the past month, three parliamentary-style democracies held national elections: Norway, New Zealand and most recently Germany.

The Enlightenment could be said to have emerged from a different struggle than the one referenced by Trump in his Warsaw address. A struggle that involved the separation of church and state, the meaning of human freedom given God’s sovereignty, and the reconciliation of science and faith.

Creating balance and stability in a chaotic political and economic environment.