Worth reading @hannahdaly.ie's full research here - it contains some really stunning numbers.
The most important point is the 80% renewable mandate delayed by six years: meaning six years of massive gas use and emissions, breaching carbon budgets and spiking bills
zenodo.org/records/2058...
"Changing society's relation to nature more broadly remains a worthy project" (206).
This by @ueberdruss.bsky.social is a brilliant Marxist analysis of energy history that deserves its place alongside Malm, Mitchell and other classics of the last couple decades.
On advance access: "Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century"
by Wout Saelens (University of Antwerp/VUB-University of Brussels)
doi.org/10.1093/past...