It was long before social-media networks were developed.
He was the former editor of Le Monde diplomatique, and he published his book in the late 1990s. There is this title of the book I like, it’s 20 years old, and it’s called The Tyranny of Communication by Ignacio Ramonet. In the case of gas, it takes around three to five years to replace it. It was common knowledge that commodities originating from the Russian Federation (coal, oil, gas, uranium or other rare that you also need for the renewable sector) couldn’t be easily replaced. Do you have the vessels? Do you have the terminals?Īnd it wasn’t an inside secret knowledge. And it’s not only about buying the commodity but also about transporting it. But even if you were working in the textile industry and wanted to buy special linen or special cotton, these kinds of commodities aren’t available in large volumes on the market because the contracts are made at least for a year.Īnd in the energy business, we have to calculate in much longer periods, in much longer intervals. So at the beginning of the year, there was a kind of conviction among many decision takers that you can go out into the market, fly to the Gulf, fly somewhere else and sign a contract and import, whether it’s gas or oil, a few weeks later. But no, they hadn’t learned they hadn’t really studied the larger picture.
So you might think that you have people who should know better after the crises of 20 because there already were crises in terms of security in supply and affordability of energy. The competence as such isn’t taken seriously. Often some competencies are with the prime minister’s office. The role is often divided among environmental, infrastructure and foreign affairs ministries. As a result, the economy minister also the hat of the energy minister, which is wrong, because energy as such on the national level is a highly fragmented topic. We even gave up the notion of an energy minister. And whether it was in national government cabinets or on a European level, I was really very often intrigued and irritated by the total absence of getting the larger picture of what energy politics should be about.įor 20 years, we’ve all been stuck in climate policy. And my audience wasn’t only young students and young colleagues in their early 20s, but they were also civil servants. So for about two decades, I did that on a regular level. And I had the chance to lecture them either academically or in the so-called strategic leadership courses you have. I like this very interesting distinction that the English language has between the decision shaper and the decision maker or taker because, in the end, politicians and commissioners depend on their staff to shape those decisions. And I also did that for an audience, as I like to call decision shapers, not only the decision takers. While there are a few more things I wish it had, it suits my needs for now and I think it's in a good state to give it to the world and hopefully have other people help contribute to it to.Karin Kneissl: For about 20 years, I’ve been lecturing on the topic of energy, with a focus on oil and gas.
On each row there are contextual controls for resetting values, and adding or removing items from a collection. Once you set your save game path & extension and choose which save file you want to work on, the editor will display a tree of all the loaded data you can then dig into and edit! After thinking about it enough I decided to take the time from main game development and make this tool that should speed up future dev time.