Renewable energy brings true blessing and no curse

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is becoming the latest unsavoury dictator to control the flow of fossil fuels.

The crippling spike in energy prices underlines the need to urgently decentralise and democratise our energy systems. The problem with fossil fuels is, that they give power to the few who own and control them.

They easily lead to corruption and inequality. Whether it’s Putin and Russian gas or Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabian oil, it’s bad news for the world when these petro dictators are in control of the world’s energy.

Africa has seen the fossil fuel ‘resource curse’. Were oil and gas the answer to our problems, then Nigeria would be a utopia, what with its large oil reserves.