Thompson's book Disorder argues that the political shocks of the 2010s (Brexit, Trump election) had structural explanations rooted in energy history rather than being mere episodes of political psychodrama, and that understanding these events through an energy lens explains them in ways conventional accounts cannot.
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Helen ThompsonEvidence Quote
“I thought that each of those two things had more of a structural explanation than that. And I wanted to run with the thought that actually if I started thinking seriously and systematically about these events having an energy history, that I will be able to get somewhere in explaining them that more conventional accounts wouldn't.”
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Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy and Geopolitics" | The Great Simplification #98— Nate HagensCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:08:12 PM
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