The conjunction of an energy revolution and energy crisis is 'unprecedented', and may bring about the emergence of a new global hegemony.
The twenty-first century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new fiat money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilized the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old political fault lines in the United States. Bitcoin was born in 2009, and now many Central Banks are assessing their Central Bank digital currencies (CBDC).
"Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century" is the last audio book by Dr. Helen Thompson. It recounts three histories-one about geopolitics, one about the world economy, and one about western democracies-and explains how in the years of the political disorder prior to the pandemic the disruption in each became one big story. It shows how much of this turbulence originated in problems generated by fossil-fuel energies, especially oil.
Will an energy revolution bring the end of US hegemony? Dr. Helen Thompson and Times Radio, tells us today https://youtu.be/m3pXte2AyIg
"Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century" is the last audio book by Dr. Helen Thompson. It recounts three histories-one about geopolitics, one about the world economy, and one about western democracies-and explains how in the years of the political disorder prior to the pandemic the disruption in each became one big story. It shows how much of this turbulence originated in problems generated by fossil-fuel energies, especially oil.
Will an energy revolution bring the end of US hegemony? Dr. Helen Thompson and Times Radio, tells us today https://youtu.be/m3pXte2AyIg
Dr. Helen Thompson has been a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge since 1994. Her current research focuses on the political economy of energy, and the long history of democratic, economic and geopolitical upheavals in the 21st century.
She is a regular on Talking Politics and is a columnist for the New Statesman. You can read a good article in Spanish on https://nuso.org this month: "El frente de la transición energética". The original version of the article in English was published in Green, 9/2022, in an edition dedicated to the ecology of war. A preview in Spanish was published in El Grand Continent, 7/20/2022, with the title “The green war front”.
San Jose Costa Rica October 27, 2022 by rafaelvilagut@gmail.com
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