MicroWave6d ago

Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response

https://lemmy.world/post/44312761

Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response - Lemmy.World

UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them to send warships to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route. The effective closure of the strait of Hormuz by Tehran, in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel, has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices. However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

Show threadZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace6d ago

Never has it been more obvious how important it is to get fossil fuels out and invest in solar, wind and nuclear power.

I hope everyone else leaves the U.S. and every petro state with their garbage oil and go their own way by investing in green energy, E.V.s and mass transit.

Show threadHugeNerd6d ago

Yes, please describe plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, air travel, sea transport with solar panels.

The “garbage oil” is what allows 8 billion people to exist. It’s what gave you everything that surrounds you.

Show threadSkaveRat6d ago
Makes it even more important that we should stop burning that stuff and using it for more useful things
Show threadHugeNerd

I understand, but you need to understand that the type of civilization that will result from that will be drastically different than the party humanity had during the cheap energy stage. You think housing and food are expensive now? Ho boy!

Also, your kids won’t be electrical engineers, but farriers and carpenters.

Mar 16 at 5:27amWeb
Show threadhumanspiral6d ago
This is false. It is a cheaper energy future with more resilience and less reason for war (profiteering for stategic scarcity). Hydrogen-solar economy is cheaper than adding new fossil fuels, and so transitioning away the most economic path, before worrying about the expense of reversing climate damage. That incumbent energy loses in transition as demand fades for their climate terrorism should not be part of equation.