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Adrian Horton

Trevor Noah: Putin has ‘shined a spotlight’ on fossil fuel dependency

Trevor Noah on EU dependency on Russian energy: “If countries want to move to renewable energy or safe nuclear power, they can no longer afford to make that, like, item number 10 on the agenda.”
Trevor Noah: ‘If countries want to move to renewable energy or safe nuclear power, they can no longer afford to make that, like, item number 10 on the agenda.’ Photograph: YouTube

Trevor Noah

On Wednesday’s Daily Show, Trevor Noah examined why the European Union would be unable to join a US boycott of Russian energy imports. “While America is able to go cold turkey on Russian oil, Europe is hooked,” he explained. The EU gets 40% of its gas and a quarter of its oil from Russia, “which is why they couldn’t join this boycott even if they wanted to.”

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