Comments by "robheusd" (@robheusd) on "Europe in desperate search of alternatives to replace Russian energy | DW News" video.

  1. It is frightening to see how european people are so brainwashed that they choose to blockade cheap gas deliveries from Russia, and were unconsciously dragged into this geopolitical conflict between Ukrain and Russia, leading to this war and all its consequences. Now we are the mercy of our bosses in Washington and a large part of our supplies now have to come from Qatar, a despotic country in the gulf region, with an absolute monarchy, no democracy and no human rights, and involved in all kind of geopolitical issues (the delivered the weapons to the rebels fighting Khadaffi in Libya, they supported terrorist jihadi groups in Syria, etc.). And how do people deal with on one hand the scientific concencus that climate change is manmade, and with enough efforts we can prevent catastrophic climate change, but when it comes to changes in the geopolitical climate, making Russia into the enemy of the west while europe was dependend on cheap russian oil and gas, we see no way to stop it and find ourselves in the catastrophy of a war that could lead to a full nuclear conflict if we are not carefull, and are facing an energy crisis. Didn't we realise that war is bad for the climate, and that there are other ways to resolve political problems, like in the case of Ukrain, not dragging the whole of Ukrain into the western sphere of influence, bt keeping it a neutral buffer state, and federalising it's government, etc? The gas problem is especially problematic as gas in the economical sense has lots of inertia, that is you can not easily shift to an alternative source, since the costs of gas delivery is mainly infrastructure (distribution, heating installations, storage facfilities). Replacing oil with alternative sources is much less costly, it is more easily storable, etc. I think we would have been better off not confronting Russia and not meddling in Ukrain, but instead had decided to transition away from fossil fuels in a more moderate way, at much lower costs and less economic instability in a period of 30 years. That is what it would take to transition away from fossil fuiels alltogehter. We can't do that in a matter of months or years.
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