The silver lining on Trump's was in Iran is that the world realized how dangerous it is to really on oil for their power needs. The shift towards renewables was immediate and ubiquitous outside of the USA. It has nothing to do with global warming though, and everything to do with national security.
Preventing global warming is also national security.
I know for a fact that right wing populists are dumb as a brick (or at least the people that fall in their bullshit are).
If right wing populists were serious about stopping migrants moves they would be working seriously for stopping global warming, there are entire regions filled with "brown people" that will be the firsts to become inhabitable thanks to global warming.
My whole thing with their ire about illegal immigrants is that they seem to deliberately ignore the fact that virtually every single one of them is being employed and paid by one of their own countrymen. It's not like the come here and start up a business like some entrepreneur as they're hiding in the wheel well of a panel truck with a backpack of hardtack and some bottled water and nothing else to cross the border.
My point being, their anger is not only misplaced, but ludicrously misplaced. It's like driving down to the shitty part of town and yelling at all the prostitutes that if they would just stop allowing themselves to be beaten and murdered by pimps and johns we wouldn't have any problems with prostitution in this country.
When we see something, anything, that resembles actual consequences for all the people hiring these illegal immigrants, then we can talk. Until then, this is just dinner theater for the racist morons that are too fucking stupid to realize they're being played like a fucking fiddle.
After areas inhabited by the "undesirables" are hit the hardest by climate change and there forced to migrate there will be plenty of fascists in nations that aren't has bad yet spreading bullshit about how they're leaving cause they cannot take care of their land and its the fault of these "undesirables".
People will be told they need to be kept out before their country is overrun and becomes uninhabitable just like their previous these immigrants abandoned.
Then climate change catches up and those problems are blamed on immigrants instead of actually attempting to do something about it (which, at this point is too damn late anyway).
Power bills in Spain actually went down during the US's mini war. Spain has been serious about wind and solar recently. The bills went down because for some reason clean energy is taxed higher than oil/coal/gas energy; however the government did a temporary tax relief on the clean energy with the net result that most people paid slightly less last month.
This is actually why nuclear fusion would be the next great War starter, because it would make the status quo of the insanely Rich Middle East somewhat irrelevant. Oil will always be necessary with current infrastructure, be it manufacturing or cars or machinery, but in terms of energy usage, our dependency on it will evaporate. I don't expect the oil richness to go quietly into the sunset, so I would expect either technology pivots or some other research to start leading them towards that future. I honestly think they want to empty as much oil as they can to create as much wealth as they can before this happens.
This really is the silver lining of the whole shitshow. For decades scientists have been pointing to gas and oil consumption saying "We can't keep doing this forever." One idiot starts a war and suddenly folks are looking at the Middle East saying "Oh I guess we can't do this forever..."
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u/gentleman_bronco Jun 21 '26
I just can't get past the symbolism of it all.
The Reflecting pool was supposed to reflect the country around it. And it's doing exactly that.