Emily Cunningham

"I think what we saw happen to the European electricity a decade ago is what will now happen increasingly across the fossil fuel complex." 17/

"Don't forget: horses were the largest source of global transport supply in 1910 but they spent the next 50 years declining and that's the point. You're going to reach the peak just before you decline." 18/

Take a moment to really let this sink in. "Energy determines geopolitics. Therefore, a new energy environment will mean a new geopolitical environment." 19/

"When you think about the geopolitical shake-up, US hegemony is coming to an end. We can see that insofar as currency and the petro dollar. What else do you see insofar as a new world order?" 20/

"The most interesting aspect of this shift to a new energy source is that it's led by China. So, it's clearly another pillar in the rise of China to greater global power." 21/

"It's very notable then whilst the US has been going backwards under its current President, China has been moving forwards and has been implementing both leading these technologies but also they have a number of very clever policies." 22/

"For example, the Belt and Road is a way of expanding Chinese path through land-based system." 23/

"The Belt and Road is a series of infrastructure, transport, and energy initiatives whereby Chinese capital and Chinese expertise is going to a series of countries in order to expand their infrastructure links." 24/