denning credible local. one coming tonight. 3 weeks w. . i had to be the one to break the news to you but there is no doubt about it the party is over the oil party that is we've been bingeing on oil coal and gas for decades on end but now our host planet earth is telling us an onset stop being so greedy with the oil gas and coal i provide you or kick you out and it seems that we

are finally beginning to understand less is more when it comes to fossil fuels but is the world economy ready for the dramatic change that is on the way we'll find out in this edition of mate farewell fossils you. when you consider germany's biggest infrastructure project at the moment is a gas pipeline you'd be justified in thinking not much has changed in terms of energy politics not stream to transpose natural gas from russia directly to germany via the baltic sea all green policies notwithstanding germany is still dependent on fossil fuels. which include meaning on the no then german coast this is where the north stream to pipeline reaches western europe after passing 1200 kilometers through the baltic same. the north stream project bypasses the previous transport route through ukraine. gas market analyst heiko norman says that

was clearly the aim of nordstrom's main shareholder russian state owned. since more than the russian side claims that neither north stream to nor nord stream one were built to bypass ukraine. but in my view the russians difficulties with transporting gas by ukraine were clearly the triggering factor to build nord stream one north stream to. its because of a long history of disputes since the end of the soviet union. in one. once it's reached mean the natural gas from north stream to will be distributed to the czech republic and austria via the new oil pipeline construction on the 580 kilometer long gas line is due to be finished in the coming weeks further east in the polish capital warsaw the north stream to pipeline is not welcome all the political

parties here oppose getting more gas from russia poland is terminating its existing gas supply contract with gazprom when it expires in 2022 saying russia uses gas as a means of applying political pressure we paid a price that was almost 40400 dollars 10000 cubic meters at the same time germany brit 260. 23280 and used of course because of our strongly pro-west need to progress. meanwhile pipe playing vessels are continuing work on north stream 2 just a few kilometers off the german coast it's not only poland that opposes this work the united states would also like to stop the project and it's planning sanctions against the operators of the ships. there's also opposition from the baltic

states lithuania is keen to get away from russian gas and has sought other suppliers here in the port city of paid a liquid natural gas from qatar is being unloaded independence from russia appears to be the key driving force behind all these moves back in poland gas market analysts design and novak is keeping an eye on developments she says the north stream pipeline built by russia's gazprom this driving a wedge between european union countries. is the most important market player in europe this means that if we increase. amounts of gas that are reaching european markets. it is translated into strength this dominance on the open market so cronje is not only thinking about all of its interests but also about the interest of other countries another aspect of the pipeline project is the issue of climate change burning natural gas as fuel is bad for the environment and could cease to be

an option if greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced. inside is in the sector i thinking ahead they're looking to break down the natural gas to produce climate friendly hydrogen. money. if i want to use natural gas long term i can break down the gas to get hydrogen and carbon dioxide in fact the russians are working on a method that yields solid carbon so they don't have the problem of sequestering the carbon dioxide. this is a possibility for supplying large volumes of liquid energy carriers or gaseous energy carriers you need to go right susteren if that works then in the long term climate friendly hydrogen could flow through the nord stream to pipeline from russia instead of natural gas but even though that could make the project more climate friendly the political squabbles look set to continue.

and that's the situation in germany and central europe but what about the bigger picture is the world economy ready for the big change a hit one economist says no jeremy rifkin predicts the collapse will be brutal and that it will come sooner than we expect he says it will happen i mean 9 years from now 20 years ago rifkin correctly predicted the digital revolution that we are now experiencing so i'd say he's a man worth listening to our correspondent did just that when he sat down with risk in their washington. most of the cars on the streets run on gasoline and it doesn't matter where you look our society depends on fossil energy the question is for how much longer is this sustainable now this book here suggests an answer jeremy rifkin the author of the green new deal says the fossil fuel civilisation will collapse by

2028. i'm meeting mr rifkin here in bethesda near washington he's an economist futurist and advisor to the european union and the german government he's made a bold prediction the threat of or extinction will move us to a 0 emissions economy jeremy rifkin in your book the green new deal you argue that our civilization which is based on fossil energy will collapse as soon as in 2028 now for 200 years fossil energy has been the most important source of energy can you believe that's hard to understand for a lot of people including for the economy which is depending on oil i think what people don't understand is the entire civilization is made out of fossil fuels are fertilizers and pesticides are construction materials are synthetic fiber are packaging. food additives and preservatives our power transport our eat our light everything so what's happened now ever is that we are now in

a pivotal turning point for this fossil fuel based industrial civilization. we have now spewed so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to maintain this industrial way of life that we are now finding ourselves in real time climate change frigid winter of 70 below 0 and blockbuster winter snows massive flooding across our land masses in the spring summer droughts and wildfires on every continent hurricanes and typhoons across the entire autumn of every year around the world our scientists are now telling us we are in the 6th extinction of life on earth so you are essentially describing a situation where the change will come from the economy rather than from politics is that right and which role will the markets play this year the level lies cost of solar and wind has just plunged below natural gas and way below nuclear and coal so

what's happened is we're seeing trillions of dollars of fossil fuel assets all the pipelines that will never be used all of the exploration rights that have been paid for by the all industry which will never amortize out all of the fossil fuels in the ground which we never taken up because they're more expensive so what we're seeing here is a massive collapse of the fossil fuel civilization because the market is speaking. of that is capital is flowing out of fossil energy companies and into renewables. rifkin says large us bond funds are leading the way. how do you imagine the future of the year 2028 without fossil energy with you look at the united states and canada they are going to be in big trouble the number one producer of fossil fuels the us the number 4 canada they're going to be in big trouble but any country that has a majority of their energy we'd reliant on fossil fuels in trouble the big oil

producing countries in the middle east north africa and other places where they are totally dependent and where they have very poor prop populations and where they have a thought. governments and failed states are going to be trouble they had plenty of we have a study in the world book world. got to make the transition they talk the talk they didn't walk the walk they've got to move very very quickly if parts of europe can get it up in parts of china. and california and your place in the u.s. and everyone can do this but it has to be tomorrow morning we need a new deal in every community and we need to quickly. oh predictions aside the world still runs largely on oil at the moment as a major impact on all aspects of the global economy price of crude determines

inflation and other key indicators in economies both rich and poor we burn 90 percent of all the rest is used for the production of plastics and chemicals oil is everywhere. blessing or curse. it's greasy poisonous and it stinks crude oil is actually made of algae and small organisms that have been decaying on the sea floor for millions of years. and that's exactly why it's so valuable this black gold is packed full of energy an excellent fuel source rushing through the economy like. it's been used for causes of years to see the wooden boats mama fi the dead and shoot down enemies with fiery arrows. but it was the popularity of the oil lamp that sparked the 1st real boom the oil wells drilled by edwin drake in pennsylvania 859 became world famous it was the 1st productive oil well.

john d. rockefeller became an oil trader and 65. he founded the company standard oil which made him the world's richest man his goal was to have an oil monopoly. the mass production of cars eventually made crude oil the most important raw material in the world the driving force behind the economy oil meant prosperity but it also triggered many crises and wars. today's biggest oil producers the us followed by saudi arabia and russia. but this black gold destroys the environment all skills and drilling accidents pollute the seas and the land suffocates under mounds of plastic waste made from us as the search for alternatives becomes increasingly desperate the production of oil still continues to rise in 2018 more crude was produced than ever before nearly 95000000

barrels every day. reserves are finite though as is the power of the oil companies and the countries that rely on oil exports. to the opec cartel meetings might soon become a purely social gathering. let's. just. take a quick look around you no matter where you are that there is definitely one thing in your immediate vicinity that you can reach with your hand or that's made of plastic that's really no escaping it it's like we're hooked on the stuff that by her own relationship with plastic my colleagues. looked into possible alternatives . what do you. sort of and shall a job have in common. they all contain plastic made out of plastic is everywhere. everywhere. from the

mattress i sleep on the phone i grab when i 1st wake up the clothes i wear and the insulation that keeps me nice and warm. even things that seem like viable alternatives to plastic and not so much. the plates often coated with plastic to make them water resistant tin cans many of them contain bisphenol a controversial synthetic chemicals and one of the most common items of litter on us these filters contain plastic. but why all of this plastic we used to be fine without it just a few decades ago our addiction is a recent one the plastic industry has skyrocketed in the past decade and because it's cheap convenient durable and liked. i really don't like plastic but it has made modern life as we know it possible and it

doesn't make economic sense. like plastic companies keep saying disposable plastic packaging keeps products fresh longer and has made products lighter and cheaper to transport. volume wise today's cars are half plastic and making them more fuel efficient the building industry alone uses 16 percent of the world's plastic because it's cheap and durable. but all of the characteristics that make plastics so convenient also make it so detrimental to the environment with catastrophic consequences. scientists found that of all the plastic produced just 9 percent has been recycled 12 percent has been incinerated and 79 percent is sitting in a landfill or the environment and will take centuries to disintegrate. we've all gotten so used to the convenience of plastic and it's just everywhere that it's

really hard to force us and companies to just switch back more tentative doing since you can make your dental care plastic free with fancy toothpaste tablets for example but you can't replace all plastics with alternatives yet there have been efforts to cut our addiction like the ban on several single use plastic items plan to take effect by 2021 but that just targets a small part of the problem in the short term plastics are the easiest solution for companies and for consumers like me if we don't have any large scale bans or we find viable alternatives the fact that we will soon being addicted to it because sadly one thing doesn't make sense but like all other addictions and long to get you into the story of what's real. and here are a few fun facts about oil as i said before 90 percent of it we burn and power

stations to fuel our cars and planes to heat our homes only 7 percent of our all goes to the chemical industry but 90 percent of that provides nearly all the basic components the chemicals industry needs to produce kills plastics or paints so-called petro chemicals industry is surely dependent on oil but many companies are seeing the writing on the wall and they using science to find solutions. almost nothing works these days without chemicals and countless substances are attained through chemical processes based on petroleum how could we ever do without it. personally i believe that in the future we will inhabit a very different world and it's the same for chemistry we will also have a very different world one in which even c o 2 may be a valuable role material. imagine

yourself standing at your barbecue or your car with a liter of gasoline. you can use it to drive 100 kilometers or light a really big far. now imagine trying to capture that after it's been turned into c o 2. and turning it back into a liter of gasoline it's a lot of work. that's what we do here. the idea sounds simple instead of pumping carbon dioxide into the air we recycle the climate killer using it to make the same products that currently involve petroleum after all the most important ingredient of petroleum for the chemical industry is carbon it's an idea that companies have been researching for some time but only now with the 1st pilot plants available in this bio reactor artificial photosynthesis is taking place using electric power bacteria converting c o 2 and water into chemicals these include butanol and hex and all the basic

materials for paints cosmetics and fabric softener. nature extracts carbon dioxide from the air and use it to generate plant material trees and other things we want to copy the best of what nature has made and that's what we do here except we're not doing it with plants but with bacteria. but there is a catch with this technology it requires a lot of electricity. to make c o 2 recycling carbon neutral it has to use renewable energies in the future the bio reactors will be built next to large wind farms also low power plants the carbon dioxide can be filtered from the emissions coming from industrial plants and of course it's also possible to take c o 2 directly from the air. technically

a lot is possible but it's also important that the process results in products that customers want to buy the chemical company called best road has developed a flexible foam with components that are about 20 percent c o 2 based these can be processed into objects such as mattresses. we could change to using c o 2 as a raw material without further ado petroleum is currently the cheapest source and it's also the most convenient way to get large amounts of carbon for the chemical industry but you could do it differently. carbon dioxide could be used to make the same products that are currently made with petroleum including car paints or plastics only great it cost petroleum can be replaced 9 9 but the chemical industry needs a complete overhaul to get ready for about transition. the chemicals industry is at least one sector clearly aware change is afoot governments are too

although they are not all equally up to speed on making the change to sustainable energy but it is encouraging to know that 12 countries leading the way are spread over 5 continents on its report focuses on what other countries still striving to increase its use of renewables. taipei is the capital of taiwan an island state with a population of 23000000. per capita c o 2 emissions amount to 10 tons per year which is more than the european average of 7 tons per person electricity here is very cheap most of it is generated in coal and gas powered plants chillingly levy wants to reduce c o 2 emissions as deputy head of the bureau of energy he supports the move towards renewables. about 10 to 15 years ago taiwan started to promote greener renewable energy to taiwan didn't have any experience in that area so we

wanted to find models we could learn from we found them in europe and especially in germany which had made the greatest advances we went to germany and then we introduced various measures most importantly the feed in tariff here in taiwan. we include the cost of renewable energy in the price of electricity in order to offset the extra costs for generating power sustainably. but the problem is very little use is made of solar energy. the state's office subsidies for installing solar panels but few people know about it. waiting 10 is a co-founder of sunny found a green energy crowdfunding platform. she aims to prove that there is money to be made with the sun and the subsidies. that. the most difficult.

phase. because no one knows and though i want or if anyone will ever believe us of. even joining us. i thought of myself and i told her to myself. if you don't actually you will have no answer quite being 10 is talking to residents of a long time cast and to. west sunny founder helped install solar panels on the roof of the center receives energy certificates for the green power it produces which can then be sold for income to be used on operating costs this is by far the largest. charity project that we have cough on date and this project sponsor was sponsored by taiwan mobile company and combine a donation effort with over 3000000 individual.

taiwan has a long way to go in its bid to increase the renewable share of its electricity supply. there are plans to set up a number of offshore wind farms. nuclear energy which accounts for about 15 percent of taiwan's electricity remains a contentious issue. because a man wants to face a town. the last a majority of voters said it wanted to keep it. in a referendum organized by the smom. nuclear week because it is playing in such a high level waste and are going to. spend for you is all story in nuclear power crammed inside of all corners so it doesn't effect. people's living a wrong or nuclear pop or. communities around the nuclear power plant received hefty subsidies. officials don't seem concerned about possible ass quakes and the

risks they might pose. their bulldozing were high in fukushima it was the tsunami that destroyed the cooling system but we are the base of the cooling system and we also built a reservoir in the nearby mountains if the cooling system were to break down the reservoir would help cool the plant. in taiwan school children are taught that nuclear power is safe and that it is a kind of eco friendly source of energy. nobody has appears to be talking about ways to reduce electricity consumption. all the ways to reduce electricity consumption that what sounds like a topic that could fill an entire program and that's all from me of the team hope you enjoyed the show don't forget to send us your thoughts and comments on twitter office.

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