We have little hope that Trump will do anything to solve Climate Destabilization, but in the back of my mind I was hoping that this severe disruption to oil (a la the Iran War), might push nations to move towards sustainable energy sources... sadly, this is far from the reality.
Blowing up oil facilities and tankers just releases a lot of that carbon directly into the environment (pollution + emissions), and the fuel used to launch warships/rockets/etc just adds on top of it all. Meanwhile, China instantly reduced its oil imports by 50% (which is 5% of the world's oil usage) and on the surface that looked amazing...only to find it replaced it with COAL burning.
People...we are out of time for climate action, we are already beyond some thresholds for severe repercussions, and every month we do not act we draw closer to existential ruin. We are still fighting oil and imperial wars when we should be weaning ourselves from all fossil fuels and facilitating world cooperation.
I semi-joke all the time that we're just dumb apes, but can we at least go out with a modicum of dignity, and not from needless stupidity? Can we at least live long enough to create sentient robots to carry on doing science and exploring the Universe once we've desolated our only habitable planet? Or are all of you okay with just flinging feces at one another and having our last accomplishment be the first quadrillionaire.
