Coherent response

An overwhelming desire to burn more is major motivating factor in a deadly competition to control energy resources. The complexity of the competition game has become a life consuming task, where no one has time to loose to be concerned about the unwanted consequences. As such we are causing troubles out of negligence by missing strategic response to priorities of our time. In this context UK is coming up with ambitious plan to alleviate unwanted consequences on poverty and global warming. However, at present UK policy is far from coherence. Different government departments control policies in each of contested areas, energy, poverty and environment. Energy policy is mostly formulated within the Department of Trade and Industry. Environment policies are mostly fashioned within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Development assistance strategies are planned in the Department for International Development. Energy security fluctuates as a public concern in the United Kingdom depending upon the appearance of spectres such as wars in the Middle East causing shortages of oil supplies, terrorists destroying gas pipelines, or Russia turning off the tap to Europe’s gas supply.



Ref.:
Ngaire Woods, Christopher Allsopp, Robert Wood, Jeniffer Coolidge; Energy Politics and Poverty, Oxford Univ., June 2007