It has also led to an unprecedented refugee crisis hitting Europe, which has in turn caused a resurgence of far right sentiment in the region.
The Tea Party movement, identified by some commentators as the first right-wing street-protest movement of our time, may be a reflection of how far populist sentiment has drifted away from the political left in the decades since the New Deal.
And Rob Brydon's sad-eyed, sat nav-obsessed Uncle Bryn reading out a letter to Stacey from her late dad in the back of the wedding car could've been pure slush, but while the show is warm, it never slides too far into sentiment.
But in commodity markets generally, and in environmental markets more specifically, market fundamentals (or the need to cover emissions) place a floor on how far market sentiment can depress demand.
The Daily Telegraph offered even stronger praise, saying that Presto had crafted the best Myst game in the series thus far, a sentiment that was echoed in other publications.
So far that sentiment has sent stock markets plunging, wiping out $2 trillion in value from capital markets on Friday, and potentially set us up for a summer of economic turmoil.
Authorities have attributed about 173 anti-refugee incidents in the first half of the year to far-right sentiment, including eight cases of arson.
With minority voters increasing as far-Right sentiment burgeons and economic misery deepens, Europe risks electoral and social earthquakes that no party dares ignore.
The two main UK public fronts for far-right sentiment, the British National party and the street-based, anti-Islam English Defence League, are both in apparent decline.
Because the argument derives its force from a stylistic effect that is immediate and local, an ostensibly far-reaching sentiment feels oddly site-specific.
