• PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      There’s plenty of justifying this war: it’s the carbon price I’ve always dreamed about. The most progress on climate change we ever had was from the COVID pandemic, I want to see oil hit $300/barrel because then the entire world will move mountains to switch to renewables.

      We could’ve done this all painlessly by starting 30 years ago, but we didn’t and this is the only way we have even a chance of reaching net-zero by 2030.

      So, not only is the Iran War the Greta Thunberg dream, but it’s locking in those prices for a good while after the war, thanks to the Arab Gulf oil facilities being not just shut down but also bombed and therefore needing repair/replacement before they can restart after the war.

      And on top of aaaaaaaalllll of that, 1) Trump is taking the flak for this political decision, and 2) we might even get a democratic Iran out of this - it’s not likely, but it’s plausible and would be wonderful news!

      So let’s applaud our Deep Cover Agent from Greta Thunberg’s Personal Army, our great comrade-in-arms, who’s managed to trigger this war!

      • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Yeah it’s functionally mass eco-terrorism against oil on a mass scale lmao

        Rather unfortunate that a lot of the oil in the facilities and such is being burned, but it was gonna be burned anyways so i feel like it is kinda worth the damage to the economy and infrastructure