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Appearances
Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s Garm Drama + the Government looks right on immigration w/ Zoe Gardner
It's 2008. Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States. Usain Bolt is breaking records at the Beijing Olympics. And Batman is dominating at the box office. And I'm the energy secretary. Yes, like Batman, I've returned. Now, we've learned a lot. Back then, we used to talk, or I used to talk, about an energy trilemma. What's a trilemma? A dilemma is a choice between two things.
Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s Garm Drama + the Government looks right on immigration w/ Zoe Gardner
A trilemma is a choice where there are three things and you can't have all three. The choice between affordability, security, and sustainability. And the idea was that fossil fuels might not be sustainable, but they did give you affordability and security. But since then, we've had the terrible cost of living crisis, which was caused by our exposure to fossil fuels.
Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s Garm Drama + the Government looks right on immigration w/ Zoe Gardner
So that old trilemma has disintegrated.