Post B44zgLVIGrbCIOzFrM by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #B44c2vFZeJymdGrnNo by petergleick@fediscience.org
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       Interesting to think that Donald Trump may have, completely inadvertently and at a horrific cost, finally woken up the world to how urgent it is we get off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.Electrify everything. Ban the production of gasoline-powered vehicles.Tax oil companies dry.Subsidize all renewables and EVs.
       
 (DIR) Post #B44c2vRcvVcXEeVQAa by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
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       @petergleick I don't understand why more governments around the world don't see "our entire economy revolves around an expensive quantity in limited supply, primarily found in one of the most war-torn and politically unstable regions in the planet" as a serious national security risk.Like, forget all of the environmental concerns, if your country were utterly dependent on corn or steel or any other commodity only found in a region that was constantly at war causing random price spikes, you'd think you'd be making removal of that dependency a nationwide priority.
       
 (DIR) Post #B44iuddxvSLLOBGxo8 by mtnrbq65@vivaldi.net
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       @azonenberg @petergleick Sounds like a supply chain risk 😜
       
 (DIR) Post #B44mnc3jok2sGUEVAe by WiteWulf@cyberplace.social
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       @azonenberg @petergleick I guess it’s partly because many of the people in those governments have vast amounts of personal wealth coming from the companies that produce those commodities.
       
 (DIR) Post #B44qrHLHBW6UzFRKFM by Ilka4You@mastodon.social
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       @azonenberg dependancy on politically high risk countries again does not pay out, it literally only pays out for the polititians signing the contracts. Green - renewable energy - is available in independance of politics as long as the sun shines and the wind blows. And there lies the answer why our politicians cling so hard on fossil resources: it fills their personal pockets.#politics #energycrisis #TrumpEpsteinFilesDistractionAttemptWar@petergleickedit: 1 typo removed
       
 (DIR) Post #B44snJgAkmj0z8S61g by Gorfram@beige.party
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       @azonenberg @petergleick But (and I am not enough of a political scholar to really know this), isn’t it the dependency of powerful nations on a crucial commodity in less powerful nations that leads to a lot of that political instability? A global switch to renewable energy (which, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for) could be expected to heighten tensions in areas rich in say, lithium, while some oil-rich areas might finally cool off.
       
 (DIR) Post #B44zgLVIGrbCIOzFrM by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
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       @Gorfram @petergleick to some extent but the 3 major abrahamic faiths have been at each other's throats over the region for millennia (I won't even get into Sunni vs Shiite infighting etc). The tribes of Afghanistan haven't got along for ages either although I don't think the conflict is quiiite as old.Adding oil disputes to the mix is just another match on a dumpster fire that's been burning for generations. The region would have been a massive supply chain risk no matter what.
       
 (DIR) Post #B455EuDYDBvXZjzEdE by ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science
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       @azonenberg @petergleick This puzzling question ⬆️ reminds me that there are few problems that *can’t* be solved by new #chemistry. “Chemical Eye 👁️ on Chasing Arrows” 👉 www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/111207_macdougall.htmlWhich reminds me of another puzzling question; Why don’t more students study to become ‘Masters of the Atomic Domain’, i.e. chemists? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #B45KlYzNetNIbZOBOq by Wen@mastodon.scot
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       @azonenberg @patrickhadfield @petergleick Of course there is an obvious link between resources, war and political instability 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #B45dcynEFUGL9pKFXM by duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk
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       @azonenberg @petergleick it's constantly at war because if the US, Russia, and/or Europe isn't starting wars there, it's selling weapons to warlords, dictators, and other repressive regimes there. It's almost as if the massive oil companies and non middle eastern oil producing countries benefit from the instability of supply from there, and the sudden price hikes that result from these conflicts.
       
 (DIR) Post #B45jrVYHqctUXLeCvI by MyricaGale@mastodon.scot
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       @azonenberg @petergleick Worth reading these in relation to food production/supply. Very long read!https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3mgn7w7anxc23