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The Iran war has laid bare the world's reliance on Gulf oil and gas (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Zapados@sh.itjust.works to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If only we had been taking climate change seriously for the past, oh, 40 years…. We wouldn’t have this reliance and we’d have made a large positive impact on the environment.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Had we been taking climate change serious and weaning ourselves off oil. Oil executives would be sad. We can't have oil executives sad.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no, those poor executed oil ... uh what? Who left their guillotine?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or just finding alternatives after it happened in the 70s

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago

I would love to see some enterprising politicians try to pass massive funding for solar/renewable and just call it some stupid nationalistic thing to make it popular with the grey matter-challenged demographic.

Go renewable to save the planet? Fuck off hippie! Go renewable because then we can bomb with impunity? I'm listening...