Why does the Kyoto mechanism fail again? Is oil more than energy? Is this a
construct that architectures the world currently known to and permitted for
us?“No one governs innocently” – de Beauvoir noted in her 1947’s The Ethics
of Ambiguity… The Editorial Board member, Prof. Bajrektarevic opens his
piece by reflecting upon the recent revolts that have swept through the Middle
East and North Africa. He fears little democratic headway will be made in the
region in the face of the much larger geopolitical imperative to maintain the
“hydrocarbon status quo” and to it related confrontational nostalgia. For their
own very specific reasons, which author delineates herein, each of the world’s
major military and economic powers has little motivation to alter its present
energy mix by embracing technological, political and socio-economic
alternatives to fossil-fuels. The one possible exception is Japan, a country with
scant indigenous hydrocarbon resources and a growing number of energyrelated problems. This fact – for the author – indicates Asia and its Far East as
a probable zone of thenew/Green-tech excellence in the decade to come.
