Europe's transition to renewable energy comes at a time when US President Donald Trump, upon inauguration, pulled out of the Paris Agreement aiming to pursue a "drill, baby, drill" energy policy.
For a long time I imagined an oil war at the end of oil where the powers that be would fight for the last drips of the stuff. Never did I imagine it would be over before it even broke out. Nor that the US would be loosing, making themselves uniquely dependent on such a commodity.
China’s strive for energy and Europe’s wake up call three years ago has paved the way for decarbonisation of the energy sector faster than I thought possible. And that in spite of the “deny defend depose”-campaign pushing for nuclear in 15 years time, which could well have gotten traction had Russia, and now the US, not turned expansive…
For a long time I imagined an oil war at the end of oil where the powers that be would fight for the last drips of the stuff. Never did I imagine it would be over before it even broke out. Nor that the US would be loosing, making themselves uniquely dependent on such a commodity.
China’s strive for energy and Europe’s wake up call three years ago has paved the way for decarbonisation of the energy sector faster than I thought possible. And that in spite of the “deny defend depose”-campaign pushing for nuclear in 15 years time, which could well have gotten traction had Russia, and now the US, not turned expansive…