Decoupling Democracy from Fossil Fuels (lemonde.fr)

• Call to end dependence on oil for democratic stability
• Proposed subsidies for low-income EV adoption
• Mitigating the social cost of energy transition

"Prominent academics and policy experts, including Thomas Piketty and Laurence Tubiana, argue that democratic resilience requires severing the link between society and oil. They propose public interventions to democratize access to electric vehicles, ensuring the energy transition does not exacerbate existing socioeconomic inequality or fuel populist backlash."