Life in Europe as the energy crisis bites

“Why are the companies behaving that way? I think they increase the price because they can. They abuse their power.” - Matthias Weilburg, a blacksmith in Fröndenberg, Germany. At the end of last 2022, we spoke to people across Italy and Germany to get a picture of what life has been like under the energy crisis in Italy and Germany this winter – and who is to blame. The film shows how communities are resorting to not turning on their heating, just to buy food, and how bills were increasing by €1000. We found that many people are crying out for the safe, clean energy solutions we need to escape the crisis. Who is standing in the way? The fossil fuel industry. In 2022 BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and Total – some of the world’s biggest polluters - together made over €350,000 every single minute. These companies have seen profits soar whilst the choice between heating and eating has been all too real for so many of us. Join us in calling for an end to fossil fuels – a