
← The Polycrisis7 Apr · 40 min
03 | Electric World Order | Demand destruction
03 | Electric World Order | Demand destruction
How is the Middle East war going to change the energy strategies of many countries? Global powers have long relied upon the threat of cutting off fossil energy flows – or the revenues from selling them – to discipline and coerce other countries. The US has done this for decades with oil. Five of the seven countries attacked by the US under the second Trump administration are rich in oil. But the emergence of cheap clean energy tech and electrification complicates the picture. What can h...