Mark Blyth
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294 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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It's a fine institution and a fine tool if you happen to have something that you can apply the tool to.
Just because you've got a hammer doesn't mean everything's a nail.
Oh, absolutely.
So, you know, my favorite example of this is, you know, I'm sitting in France right now and it's coming up for the third heat wave of the summer and we've just started July.
Europe is baking every year.
The notion that climate change is some kind of hoax has become a sick joke.
So if you want to do something about this, where do you go?
You go to China, and you got all the green tech.
You get the wind.
You get the batteries.
You get the solar, the whole lot.
And this is already happening all over the global south.
In Pakistan, 20% of their electricity now runs off the grid because Europe nicked their gas in 22 and 23 by buying the spot market from Qatar.
They ran out of gas to run their grid.
A bunch of Pakistanis basically went over the border, came back with a couple of million panels, assembled it, and now 20% of their electricity is carbon free.
You run this across the global south and what do they not need?
They don't need oil.
Once they don't need oil, they don't need dollars.
Once they don't need dollars, their current account constraint is a lot easier and they can buy and finance things on their own a lot better.
We're transforming the global south through this moment of tension, this moment of transformation.
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