[balozi]

Decarbonization needs to happen anyway - that statement is issued as if its fact. A realist would would posit that energy independence, or energy security and its underlying national security implications should be arrived at by any means necessary, carbon or non-carbon based.

[tapoxi]

Carbon based energy contributes to what amounts to be a multi-trillion dollar disaster and may even contribute to the destruction of a nation using it.

Not to mention that such an investment is wasted capital. Change is accelerating and that energy infrastructure would need to be realistically dismantled in fairly short order.

[nickserv]

Europe has little hydrocarbon reserves, so decarbonization is required for energy independence.

[Moldoteck]

North sea can be explored. Black sea is already explored through Neptune deep

[pjc50]

Yes, apart from small fracking possibilities, and the North Sea, which is shared between two non-EU European countries, UK and Norway.

(as posted elsewhere, this was a critical problem for Nazi Germany!)

[adrianN]

Sure, but there are really great reasons to get rid of fossil fuels and energy independence is a nice bonus. Countries tend to have multiple goals at the same time. It's nice if multiple problems have the same solution.