Not A Silver Lining, But A Green One

The saying goes that every dark cloud has a silver lining and as hard as it is to see any in the Ukraine War, there has been one which benefits everyone on the Planet as Europe has turned to renewable energy to replace the gas and oil it previously imported from Russia.
Faced with having to replace its biggest supplier after Russia cut off gas supplies last year, the European Union put more coal power on standby to fill the gaps but it has turned not to such devastatingly polluting measures and instead went green and solar, wind and tidal power and are now generating more electricity than any other source.
Wind and solar generated 22% of electricity in the EU in 2022, overtaking gas (20%) and Coal (16%) and helped helped reduce the energy deficit although a milder than expected winter and concerns over the public concern over the environmental damage we are causing and climate change was a big factor.
The EU still remains one of the world's largest emitters of climate-heating greenhouse gases but the trajectory is for less dirty energy creation and more green power with the Senior Energy Policy Expert at Climate Action Network Europe saying that increasing wind and solar 'can replace fossil fuels' and
saying that it's evidently clear that coal has no future.
Obviously more green power and less pollution is a great thing, unfortunately it took a war and an energy shortage crisis to make it happen where people dying in their tens of thousands each year, sea levels rising and extreme weather events never.