Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸1d ago

I hate this timeline.

As a long time #climate campaigner... I almost feel like I should be hoping that the Iran/US war continues as long as possible so the price of oil and gasoline can go as high as possible and force economies to electrify and shift at emergency-speed to renewables.

We could have started on this the easy way 30 years ago... but a few of the same people objected and obstructed.

#IranUSIsraelWar #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateWar #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateCollapse #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli

Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦
@chris In the current globalized world order, countries at war are still dependent on one another's trade. Murder is permitted, of course. You can bomb schools and hospitals and commit outright genocides - but its the interruption of a supply chain gets treated as a war crime.
Apr 3 at 5:35amWeb
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸17h ago
@zazzoo sick, isn't it.
Show threadDe_Minimis17h ago
@zazzoo @chris
It is argued that Germany lost WWI due to attacking all of its food suppliers.They starved themselves into submission. Can't have that happen again, I guess.
Show threadGaëtan Perrault16h ago

@zazzoo @chris

There's been some serious economics research into this. And oddly, supply chain interruptions are often more deadly than the event itself.

US sanctions regimes have cut off tens of millions of people (if not hundreds) from essential medicines or treatments. Or access to sufficient food.

They see similar things in disaster zones. A very limited number of people typically die in the hurricane or the flood. Most of the deaths come afterwards when people can't get medical attention or essential food supplies are cut off.

In no way does this justify shooting people, that's also terrible.

But with the straight of Hormuz cut off. That lack of fertilizer and fuel could represent far more death outside of Iran than inside it.