{"id":59488,"date":"2021-09-25T06:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59488"},"modified":"2021-09-25T06:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:35:40","slug":"gas-crisis-reveals-imminent-end-of-europes-fossil-fuel-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59488","title":{"rendered":"Gas Crisis Reveals Imminent End of Europe\u2019s Fossil Fuel Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleMeta\" class=\"grid__articleMeta\">\n<h3 class=\"fhb wp-block-fabrica-headline is-style-sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2021\/09\/22\/gas-crisis-reveals-the-imminent-end-of-europes-fossil-fuel-age\/\"><span class=\"fhb__line fhb-fs-default fhb-lh-xs\">Gas Crisis Reveals Imminent End of Europe\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"fhb__line fhb-bold fhb-fs-default fhb-lh-xxs\">Fossil Fuel Age<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"featured \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R3R168-910x0-c-default.jpg\" sizes=\"910px\" srcset=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R3R168-910x0-c-default.jpg\" \/><figcaption>Coal is transported by barge on the Rybinsk Reservoir in Russia. Photo: pbpvision\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"bodyText\">\n<p><strong>Nafeez Ahmed sees the current energy crisis as a symptom of a deeper malaise \u2013 reliance on Russia and fossil fuels \u2013 which could lead to spiralling inflation and a perfect global economic storm<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-fabrica-reader-actions frab frab--basic\">Britain and Europe are in the midst of a gas crisis that signals an approaching turning point in the global energy system which markets in their current form will be unable to resolve. The Government\u2019s prevailing approach was exemplified in the Prime Minister\u2019s simplistic refrain that:<\/div>\n<p class=\"is-style-default has-bt-reportage-light-background-color has-background\">\u201c\u2026 the problems we are seeing are temporary. We\u2019re experiencing bottlenecks in all kinds of things \u2013 huge stresses \u2013 as the world wakes up from COVID. It\u2019s like everybody going to put the kettle on at the end of a TV programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">But Boris Johnson is wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">The current price hikes are a warning sign of a deeper shift: a turning point of global proportions that requires a very different approach from business-as-usual. Though no longer rich in fossil fuel resources, consistently poor policy choices mean that the UK and Europe as a whole remain dependent on them. The failure to recognise the implications has set us up for increased geopolitical dependence on Russia, and a future of intensifying, intertwined cyclical climate and energy crises that will amplify the chance of triggering a series of shocks that could devastate the global economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">To understand what\u2019s happening, we need to go beyond banal headlines and simplistic reductions of the crisis to one or the other factor, and instead attempt to understand the crisis through a whole systems lens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas Crisis Reveals Imminent End of Europe\u2019s Fossil Fuel Age Coal is transported by barge on the Rybinsk Reservoir in Russia. Photo: pbpvision\/Alamy Nafeez Ahmed sees the current energy crisis as a symptom of a deeper malaise \u2013 reliance on Russia and fossil fuels \u2013 which could lead to spiralling inflation and a perfect global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29438,281,328,2092,694],"class_list":["post-59488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-byline-times","tag-europe","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59489,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59488\/revisions\/59489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}