1950s syndrome

Electricity generation in Germany 1900–2014

The 1950s syndrome describes the rapid increase in global energy demand around the 1950s and its consequences.

Historically, this means the years between 1949 and 1966, in which the way of life and standard of living of broad strata, starting from Europe, changed profoundly. The 1950s syndrome describes the surge in energy demand that began in this phase , the considerable increase in known energy resources and the development of consumer society .

The most important global economic basis lay in the enormous reduction in the cost of fossil fuels , especially crude oil , as a result of the huge deposits discovered in the Middle East during the Second World War . This enabled u. a. the mass motorization that really began in Europe only at this time.

Footnotes

↑ Ernst Peter Fischer : The 1950s Syndrome . In: Die Welt from March 4, 2007.
↑ Christian Pfister (ed.): The 1950s Syndrome. The way to the consumer society . Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-258-05392-8 (with the collaboration of Peter Bär. With a foreword by Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi )

[1] Ernst Peter Fischer : The 1950s Syndrome . In: Die Welt from March 4, 2007.

[2] Christian Pfister (ed.): The 1950s Syndrome. The way to the consumer society . Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-258-05392-8 (with the collaboration of Peter Bär. With a foreword by Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi )