The Lichterfelde gas-fired power plant in Berlin. Archival photoMOSCOW, 19 Aug. Europe's commitment to green energy, combined with its reckless idealism, could lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people this winter, columnist Christine Tate writes in an article for The Hill. cuts in US fossil fuel production and an unwillingness to buy Russian oil or natural gas could lead to the deaths of several hundred thousand people across the continent this winter,» the author warns. .jpg» />'Leaves to crying': Germans send signal to Scholz, booed during speech As Tate notes, the 'seeds' of Europe's energy crisis were planted many years ago, while attempts to replace traditional energy with 'green' sources proved 'disastrous'. combined with stupid idealism will cost lives this winter,» she points out. Thus, annually across Europe, about 200,000 people become victims of «excessive winter mortality», and cold weather and a sharp decrease in heating capacities could potentially provoke a six-figure increase. «If efforts to force the use of unreliable, expensive clean energy sources or to If the US succeeds, we may face results comparable to those of our European cousins,» Tate writes. The coming «deadly» winter in Europe should, in her opinion, be a wake-up call for the US. «European optimistic but ultimately fruitless energy policies are creating what could be the biggest energy crisis of our time,» the observer concludes. The European market faced a gas collapse last year. Experts attributed it to limited supply from major suppliers, low occupancy of underground storage facilities and high demand for liquefied natural gas in Asia. Now the EU continues to be under pressure due to ongoing export tensions from Russia. In recent days, the situation has been affected by the hot weather that has settled in the region, due to which the generation of electricity by alternative sources is reduced. at a price below the market, writes FT
