In 1998, fossil fuels made up 85% of the world’s primary energy. In 2023, they made up 81.5% — a drop of just 3.5 percentage points in 25 years.

And we’re told we can cut the remaining 81% to near-zero in the next 25.

That’s not a transition — it’s a delusion.

This short clip from our documentary The Real Cost of Net Zero looks at the sobering facts and ends with a telling insight from Meg O’Neill, CEO of Woodside Energy.

👉 Watch the full documentary here:🎥

In the film, I speak with engineers, executives, and energy realists about the true scale of the decarbonisation task — and expose just how wildly disconnected the green slogans are from physical reality.

The promises are grand. The numbers don’t lie.

If you care about energy, economics, or the future we’re stumbling into, this is worth your time.

Please share it. We need more realism, and less rhetoric.

Source: Statistical Review of World Energy 2024, Energy Institute.📊 See the full data set here

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