Is There a Complexity in Energy?

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It's all too easy to create a very linear causality of this, but it starts in the Thatcher years. The real social welfare was sold to private enterprise and when that happened, then the maintenance bills didn't get paid. And so this is part of the the flow of immigration that happened when Syria got their grain cut off from Russia in 2009 or something like that 10. There's a lot of story in here that is way beyond those numbers on that graph.

Winter has come - and for some people it’s colder and more expensive than the recent past. This week Nate reconnects with Nora Bateson to discuss how she and others living in Sweden are responding to the phenomenal spike in their electricity costs, which are currently 35-40x higher than this time last year. What steps are people taking in their own homes to stay warm and reduce energy use, and what tools and support is the government providing its citizens? Is there any single event or person to blame for the drastic increase in energy costs or is the root cause broad and deep within the systems we have created? What can we learn from this dress rehearsal as we anticipate and prepare for The Great Simplification?

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