The Energy Transition That Isn’t

Intellectual elites’ false pretense of energy transition

While listing many of the barriers to abandoning fossil fuels for “green” energy, three writers in Foreign Affairs magazine skip over an important truth: The once ballyhooed but now moribund “energy transition” was and remains...

The Energy Transition That Isn’t

When people talk about the energy transition, they mean replacing fossil fuels with renewables. The real shift is using less energy. Daniel Yergin argues this isn’t a transition but an energy addition—renewables are stacking on top of still-growing fossil fuel use. Net zero isn’t happening. “The energy transition is not just about energy; it is about rewiring and reengineering…