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If there is any silver lining at all to US and Israel's war on Iran, it is that the global cost of an oil war may persuade countries to once and for all reject fossil fuels for renewable energy. If oil and gas are precious and scarce resources that routinely generate destabilizing wars, well, nobody can fight a war over sunlight, can they?

As the climate crisis intensifies and the planet gradually loses its capacity to sustain the current global economy, we will certainly see wars fought over water or critical minerals. But with the demise of...