What is environmental sustainability? This has to be explained. Should it be simply conflated with climate change objectives. Energy security needs also to be explained. In theory energy security and environmental sustainability ought to be close relations. After all energy security might encourage saving energy, discouraging excessive energy consumption likely to evince energy imports. Yet energy security is capable of various interpretations. Some of these could be even the protection of energy exports in the case of oil exporting countries.
Energy security may be associated with ‘hierarchical’ cultural biases, which may even in some senses make it antagonistic to environmental causes. In any event, energy security is liable to being ‘conscripted’ by key energy groups as a discourse to favour their interests. On the other hand sometimes this may go hand-in hand with environmental objectives.
