How our increasingly interconnected infrastructure has left us on a knife edge

Even renewables are threatened by an expansion of Russian hostilities.

Russian shelling sparked a fire in March outside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Daniel Arrhakis/flickr.

It used to be in times of war that a country’s infrastructure was pretty much self-contained. Coal mines and oil wells were on land and power plants and factories could only be taken out by bombing or, in relatively rare cases, sabota…