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> If the geopolitical implications of the petroleum economy have created incentives for India, China, and many others to move toward renewables, then they have also created specifically strategic (as opposed to economic) vested interests in the fossil-fuel economy for the world’s dominant powers. Simply put, fossil fuels are the foundation on which the Anglosphere’s strategic hegemony rests.
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