Trump’s War With Iran Is Also a Climate War | Fossil fuels are structurally embedded in modern warfare.
Source: thenewrepublic
Trump’s War With Iran Is Also a Climate War | Fossil fuels are structurally embedded in modern warfare.
Source: thenewrepublic
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>War makes climate change worse in many ways, and vice versa. The human costs of the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran—the [hundreds](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/02/civilian-deaths-in-iran-pass-200-amid-fear-of-bombs-and-regime-clampdown) of people who have died, including [more than 100 girls and teachers](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-experts-deeply-disturbed-by-child-deaths-escalating-middle-east-conflict-2026-03-04/) killed at an elementary school—are surely a tragedy. The mounting economic risks—disrupted supply chains, spiking energy prices, shaken stock markets—are ominous. The danger that this war of choice launched by two nuclear-armed states will escalate further, drawing in powers across the region and beyond, is alarming. And threaded through each of these concerns is the fact that modern warfare is inextricably linked with climate change.
War is Epstein-class laughing, and earth suffering.
It’s a war of the billionaires against humanity.
I’m on tenterhooks wondering if some other significant shock is going to happen in some other petroleum producing part of the world. The Russia Ukraine war has certainly shown how vulnerable petrostates are to asynchronous warfare, what with each side attacking refineries, pipelines and pumping stations, etc.