547. The Truth About Russian Oil, Net Zero, and North Sea Drilling
6/24/20261 hr
With the UK and Europe sweltering in yet another record-breaking heatwave, will we ever actually reach net zero? How close are we to a “lights out” scenario due to the Iran war, and how did we become so dependent on Russian oil? Is North Sea drilling for oil and gas a matter of national security, or an environmentally reckless fantasy?
Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more in this week's edition of Question Time, with the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, Dan Jørgensen.
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:01
Two wars, first in Ukraine and now in Iran, have delivered two monumental oil and gas shocks to the global economy, but they've also made the politics of energy impossible to ignore, from the cost of living to national security. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump is still on his drill, baby, drill mission. The climate debate has regressed into yet another culture war battleground between left and right, and here we are in the middle of another sweltering record-breaking heatwave. If that wasn't enough, we now need more energy than ever to fuel the enormous data centers which the AI masters of the universe insist that we need. So no surprise that my recent debates with Rory on net zero and the climate crisis have generated a lot of interest and many, many questions. How close are we to a lights out scenario? Will we ever actually reach net zero? Is North Sea drilling a matter of national security or an environmentally reckless fantasy? To answer all those questions and more, we're delighted to be joined by a real expert, European Commissioner for Energy and all things climate, Dan Jørgensen, for this special edition of The Rest is Politics Question Time.
Rory Stewart· Host1:03
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Alastair Campbell· Host1:29
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