The way to fix it is to get back in Russia’s good graces, tell the US to fuck off, ditch neoliberalism and do what China is doing: massive state directed investment in industry, infrastructure and renewables (with a side of nuclear energy). None of which they are willing to do. And if they think the decline is just going to be a steady “slow agony”, they are also mistaken. Declines happen slow at first but they accelerate more and more as the system breaks down. Things will go very rapidly then.

Europe escaped the immediate energy shock that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine better than expected. Prices shot up, but reserves didn’t run out. Countries found new fuel sources. Households, on the whole, kept the heating on, helped by selective industry shutdowns.

No it did not. Europe just straight up running out of energy was never going to happen. But I fucking hate these shits who pretend as if inflation didn’t go crazy in front of my eyes. These guys get to set their own goals at standards too low to fail.

Ursula von der Leyen, the EU’s top executive, called Draghi’s pitch to accelerate Europe’s green industry “basically the same idea we’re pushing forward.”

Literally 6 months ago we had an article. This is what it had to say

Even more of a problem for Europe is that its countries have been cutting back on climate-related investments and increasing defense-related investments. The European Investment Bank (set up in 2019) is, as the Financial Times reported, “under pressure to fund more projects in the arms industry,” while the European Sovereignty Fund—set up in 2022 to promote industrialization in Europe—is going to pivot toward support for military industries. **Military spending, in other words, will overwhelm the commitments to climate investments **

and she has the gall to pretend as if she is pushing for green investment?

Energy bills were artificially inflated , even when energy reserves were available : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3bo-s_OY4Q&t=264s