The South Asian Polycrisis
Industry is shutting down all over Europe [1] but no-one yet talks about a &quot;poly-crisis&quot; around these parts, it&#x27;s like we&#x27;re sleepwalkers, all it&#x27;s fine as longs as we don&#x27;t actively talk about it. And who-ever protests the causes behind it is labeled as a left-winger or right-winger (or both at the same time), and called an ally of Putin.<p>I had expected Tooze to also write about it, after all the book that made him famous, <i>The Wages of Destruction</i> [2] (which I heartily recommend, I&#x27;ve just finished reading it), touched heavily on the Nazis&#x27; quest for energy resources. This time around Europe decided to cut itself off from said energy resources out of its own volition, never read of anything like that happening before in the context of a war.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;business&#x2F;europe-energy-crisis-factories.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;business&#x2F;europe-energy-cr...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Wages_of_Destruction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Wages_of_Destruction</a>