Energy crisis

If the soil is the substrate of life, it is awakened by the activity of the sun. Plants and weather phenomena such as wind, rain, and ocean currents directly depend on it. Even fossil fuels are nothing more than stores of accumulated solar energy from the distant past. Therefore, the conglomerate of ecological crises we are confronted with today also conceals energy crises. Historically, poverty and hunger as a result of deteriorating climatic conditions and depleted resources have been among the most important triggers of social upheavals, from local uprisings to the fall of entire empires, but also of technical innovations as well as political and social reforms. Energy crises were and are a defining moment in history. The theme island highlights three such energy crises over the last 200 years.