The real war is being waged by the energy companies against the world
The current energy scenario is the closest thing to a war we have experienced for a very long time. And what’s worse: the consequences of what happens in that war are far more important to everyone than those of any other kind of conflict we are currently experiencing — assuming nuclear weapons don’t come into play.
What is going on, and why can we label it as anything less than “war”? What we are experiencing is a balance of power between energy generating and distributing companies that want to make as much money as possible, countries that are willing to sacrifice the planet’s environmental objectives in exchange for brief temporary relief, and others who want to modify the entire system so as to address our real problems.
Let’s start at the beginning: Europe’s energy problem is a global one. In Europe we tend to blame the unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the blackmail that an autocrat like Putin intends to exercise with gas prices, but the reality is that we are living through the forced transition of the entire energy system from one based on fossil fuels, and that we now know for sure (except for a noisy minority of stupid deniers) was unsustainable, to one based entirely on renewable energies, something scientifically demonstrated to be completely feasible.
