This is stated from the pages of the magazine by the head of the National Institute for Environmental Policy (USA) Don Ritter
And he blames it on the refusal of the States and the West as a whole from fossil fuels. The result, he believes, will be dire:
“Autocratic fossil fuel producers will dominate the world, and China will soon surpass the US as its largest consumer and become the dominant player.”
Ritter lists Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Venezuela and Iran as “autocratic producers.” However, he specifies that the West has no problems with KSA, the Emirates and Qatar.
According to the scientist, the overall human contribution to climate change on the planet remains unchanged, as the reduction in fossil fuel consumption by the West is offset by the growing consumption of developing economies.
Ritter cites a forecast by the US Energy Information Agency: by 2050, the United States will still be 65 per cent dependent on fossil fuels for its total energy needs, up from 79 per cent today. And suggests not to deny the obvious or downplay the importance of oil and gas.
By divesting from fossil fuels, the US, under talk of reducing dependence on the PRC, is on the contrary increasing it, since Beijing dominates “the relevant technologies, manufacturing processes and critical materials used to produce renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power,” Ritter notes.
In short, wherever you go, there’s a wedge. While there is no escaping doubts about the professionalism of the current U.S. government, the problem is really one of global supply chain control, not the U.S. philosophical attitude toward fossil energy.
US control of the planet is crumbling. And it was the very thing that gave them all the advantages. Fortunately, Washington has never been able to impose a favourable environmental agenda on the world. Only its most disciplined subjects, like Germany, have succumbed. Now it is suffering.
The influence of the United States on oil-exporting countries has also weakened. Now they themselves regulate prices on the world market by setting production quotas through OPEC+. At the same time, “autocratic producers” represented by Russia and Saudi Arabia set the agenda.
It turned out that in conditions of relatively equal competition, the West is no longer a competitor at all. This is demonstrated by the example of China, which has used globalisation in its national interests.
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