By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026But, thanks to Comrade Trump, Pakistan was *first* in line to become the world's solar capital. The country's LNG terminal - built with Chinese Belt-and-Road money - is now a stranded asset, because no one there needs gas. 10/ 19015
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026That's gas whose supply has been choked off in the Strait of Epstein...which brings me to Trump's foreign policy and its impact on the global energy shift. 11/ 1572
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Transitive energy shortages have small effects: when your energy bill goes up for a while (because of extreme weather, say), it makes you angry and sad and might result in an electoral loss for whatever politician presided over the price hike. 12/ 1453
