People hold up a banner reading "Open Nord Stream 2 immediately" during a right-wing protest against increasing energy prices and rising living expenses in Leipzig, Germany, on September 05...Image by Christian Mang / Reuters
A view of Cologne Cathedral after lights were switched off as an energy-saving measure, in an effort to reduce dependence on imported natural gas from Russia in Cologne, Germany, on Septemb...Image by Mesut Zeyrek/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Empty chairs at a closed municipal swimming pool. The entrance has a sign that translates to "due to the energy crisis, your aquatic center is temporarily closed", in Meudon, on the south-w...Image by Julien De Rosa / AFP
Workers restart the installations at the Emile-Huchet thermal power and combined gas plant located in Saint-Avold and Carling, eastern France on September 12, 2022. Initially shut down in l...Image by Frederick Florin / AFP
Residents of a high-rise building use mobile phones to illuminate their path as they descend the stairs in the dark during a blackout in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 20, 2022. Blacko...Image by Joao Silva/The New York Times
A teacher plays with children at the Kleiner Fratz child daycare center in Neukoelln on September 14, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Child daycare centers across Germany are facing rising costs f...Image by Sean Gallup/Getty Images
A man levels the coal before covering the trailer parked outside the Sobieski coal mine in Poland. People are queueing up for days for coal at mines, following an embargo on Russian coal, w...Image by Artur Widak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
An employee works in the bakehouse of the Bonert bakery in Munich, Germany, on September 15, 2022. Rising energy prices are taking a toll on German bakeries that are heavily dependent on ga...Image by Lukas Barth / Reuters
Protesters Tracey Booker (left) and Pauline Jones, with dog Lizzie, at a fracking site in Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, England, on September 8, 2022. A ban on fracking in England has be...Image by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images
Indonesian students during a protest against fuel price hike in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 5, 2022. The Indonesian government raised the price of subsidised fuels by about 30 percent ...Image by Jefri Tarigan/Jefta Images/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Lorenzo Pinamonte, owner of Hotel Nettuno, walks past electricity bills he has displayed in protest of the near-600 percent price hike in his last month&rsquos electricity bill compared to ...Image by Michel Porro/Getty Images
The Seitelo family waits for electricity to come back to finish cooking during a blackout in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 20, 2022. Blackouts reached a new level of crisis in recent ...Image by Joao Silva/The New York Times
Hit by unsustainable cost of living, people queue for free food at non-profit association Pane Quotidiano in Milan, Italy on August 31, 2022. According to ISTAT, Italy&rsquos office for nat...Image by Piero Cruciatti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
