The war in Iran is sharpening China’s advantage in promoting a renewable energy future, as oil disruptions expose the fragility of fossil fuel systems
  • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    I’m hopeful that this attack on Iran will have the long-term beneficial outcome of accelerating the move to renewables in the Global South. What’s happening to Cuba right now should be a warning to everyone: if your country relies on fossil fuels, the US can and will cut you off from those fuels if it doesn’t like the cut of your jib. I think that’s the real reason Trump is going so hard against things like windmills. He wants to see everyone dependent on oil - and is positioning the US to control global oil flows in order to force the world to bend to the US’ will. Any country that wants to preserve its sovereignty needs to be looking into getting off oil dependency yesterday. And thankfully, China is building out the capacity now to satisfy that demand for renewable energy.

    • racoon@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 hours ago

      That’s right. America’s manifest destiny on the world is the white man’s burden of stealing seizing, embargoing or bombing fossil fuel supplies to all the countries unable to govern themselves in an appeasing and submissive way