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Energy: the new thirty years' war
30 Jun 2011 21:18 #1
by CinnamonGirl
Energy: the new thirty years' war was created by CinnamonGirl
We are heading for a global succeed-or-perish contest among the energy big hitters – but who will be the winners and losers?
A 30-year war for energy pre-eminence? You wouldn't wish it even on a desperate planet. But that's where we're headed, and there's no turning back.
From 1618 to 1648, Europe was engulfed in a series of intensely brutal conflicts known collectively as the Thirty Years' War. It was, in part, a struggle between an imperial system of governance and the emerging nation state. Indeed, many historians believe that the modern international system of nation states was crystallised in the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, which finally ended the fighting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... l-conflict
A 30-year war for energy pre-eminence? You wouldn't wish it even on a desperate planet. But that's where we're headed, and there's no turning back.
From 1618 to 1648, Europe was engulfed in a series of intensely brutal conflicts known collectively as the Thirty Years' War. It was, in part, a struggle between an imperial system of governance and the emerging nation state. Indeed, many historians believe that the modern international system of nation states was crystallised in the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, which finally ended the fighting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... l-conflict
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