<nettime> What is a global energy regime shift?

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

Here it is:

https://www.iea.org

Along with excellent reporting from the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert

Read the main site, eye-popping. This is Green Capitalism in the energy
sector. It's backed by the World Bank and it feeds directly into the EU's
last-chance Green Deal - as well as a US presidential campaign. The
technique is maximum reduction of CO2 through job-creating government
subsidy in all directions (including home retrofitting, for instance, a
brilliant proposal). The avowed aim is to seize the crisis to create a new
hegemony. These are the folks with their hands on the pump. It's all
supposed to happen in the next six months.

The finance to do this is available since the Central Banks realized they
could release infinite amounts of liquidity into the economy, for whatever
end.

And despite all the revulsion you may feel if you look into that website,
isn't this direction a lot more viable than whatever the Trump/Brexit years
have produced? How are we to stand with respect to this new wave?

Where does everybody see this thing going?



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