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Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Aug 5, 202675:11Society & Culture

China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – n...

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Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil...

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Published Aug 5, 2026, 75:11 long, audio available.

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