Trump's Iran war accidentally sparked a global renewable energy revolution — handing a big win to an industry he openly despises, an analyst wrote Saturday.
Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran has triggered what energy experts are calling the worst oil supply crisis in recorded history — and in a twist the president almost certainly never intended, it may have permanently accelerated the world's shift away from fossil fuels, wrote columnist Sabrina Haake on her Substack.
"The irony of an uninformed charlatan who relentlessly calls green energy a con job causing it to proliferate is so, so sweet," she wrote.
Haake contined, "With Trump’s Iran war now in its third month, countries are scrambling to circumvent the geopolitical tug of war by transitioning more quickly to renewables. Climate change almost seems like an afterthought as calls to speed the transition are now framed as a matter of security and economics, a strategy to avoid the war-driven upheaval of global oil markets.
"Wind and solar energy, produced entirely within national boundaries, insures against war-driven supply upset. It also insulates allies from future trade sabotage threatened by a psychopath hell-bent on retribution."
Haake wrote that International Energy Agency Director Fatih Birol told The Guardian that, "almost overnight," foreign leaders lost faith in fossil fuels. The crisis, he said, will cause "a significant boost to renewables and nuclear power and a further shift towards a more electrified future" that will "cut into the main markets for oil."
Haake wrote that nearly 60 nations representing more than one-third of global economic power met in Colombia last week to draft national roadmaps away from oil, gas and coal. The summit was deliberately organized outside of normal U.N. channels to avoid obstruction by petrostates — and the United States was not invited.
"As an anti-science, anti-information nihilism spreads its ignorant rot across the U.S., it is reassuring to know that other nations aren’t similarly afflicted," the columnist wrote.
"Idiocracy, it would seem, is not contagious."