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> What the Mad Max franchise (which began only six years after the 1973 oil embargo) got right is that fossil fuel in its extremely uneven distribution throughout the world always seems scarce, and there's always violence over it. The climate movement is a peace movement in two ways.... https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/if-fossil-fuels-are-war-renewables-can-bring-peace/
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If Fossil Fuels Are War, Renewables Can Bring Peace

On one side of the world the US and Israel are pursuing an ill-conceived attack on Iran that has hugely impacted the flow of fossil fuel in the region. This is already having a grim impact on daily life in many nations, jacking up the price of oil and gasoline,

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> The government of Spain has been outspoken against the attacks on Iran, perhaps because of its prime minister's left politics, but perhaps also because the country gets the majority of its electricity from renewables and is thus far less dependent on foreign fossil fuel than many other European countries. Meanwhile, from Ukraine to Cuba to Pakistan, countries are speeding the energy transition to achieve independence from the volatile and often brutal political economy of fossil fuel.
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> Ursula K. Le Guin's landmark essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction," which proposes that the first human tool was not a weapon, but a container, because gathering was actually more significant a food source than hunting. But, she points out, how the men killed the mammoth makes a more dramatic story than how the women gathered the oats...
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