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> ... their energy exports must pass through a handful of maritime choke points. The most important.. the Strait of Hormuz (through which flow 40 percent of the world’s oil exports), and the Strait of Malacca, which is vital for the transportation of oil to China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan— a region that accounts for a larger segment of the world economy than either Europe or North America. Two other locations... are the southern tip and the Horn of Africa.
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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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> THE DISCUSSION OF climate change, as of every other aspect of the planetary crisis, tends to be dominated by the question of capitalism and other economic issues; geopolitics, empire, and questions of power figure in it far less. One reason for this is that the modern citizen has become, almost unconsciously, Homo economicus: “Not only has the influence of Economy spread throughout the world,” writes the philosopher of economics Jean Dupuy, “it has taken over our very ways of thinking about the world.”
#HomoEconomicus #JeanDupuy #ClimateChangeEmpire