As Europe faces a winter of skyrocketing natural gas prices driving millions of people unable to afford to heat their homes into energy poverty, it’s alarming how western leaders — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau among them — continue to take precisely the wrong message from what has happened.
From Trudeau, to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other European leaders, to the Biden administration in the U.S., their misguided battle cry is the same.
It’s that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which has dramatically curtailed natural gas exports to Europe, demonstrates the failure of western democracies to abandon fossil fuel energy quickly enough in favour of renewables, providing proof this transition must proceed faster than ever before.
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