Getting off oil might get us off war too

Left, image from Direct Energy. Right, image from Yannis Behrakis/REUTERS; A US soldier in the Rumaila oil field in Iraq, 2003.

As war looms again in the oil-rich Middle East, green energy could bring an unexpected bonus: peace.

Here’s the case for it:

If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oil | Bill McKibben

“Were it not for oil, we would never have involved ourselves in a ruinous war with Iraq, destabilising an entire region.” Bill McKibben

If any new war is avoided through this energy shift, note the huge double-green benefits: green economically as well as environmentally with trillions in war costs avoided, more than paying for new infrastructure and social progress.

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