Burning furniture will in fact keep you warm, and if you can do it long enough, your kids will wonder why others toil with trees and axes so much.

The downside of course, is that it is much much harder to go back to chopping wood once that furniture is all gone. Especially if all you ever knew was burning furniture.

For now. Without industry of their own Europe won't have a high quality of life much longer, as recent unemployment statistics already show.