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    If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oil | Bill McKibben

    The climate crisis isn’t the only reason to kick fossil fuels – the prospect of a war to protect Saudi crude reminds us of that
    by Bill McKibben Sep 18, 2019 4 minutes
    A US soldier in the Rumaila oil field in Iraq, 2003: ‘Were it not for oil, we would never have involved ourselves in a ruinous war with Iraq, destabilising an entire region.’ Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/REUTERS

    We are sadly accustomed by now to the idea that our reliance on oil and gas causes random but predictable outbreaks of flood, firestorm and drought. The weekend’s news from the Gulf is a grim reminder that depending on oil leads inevitably to war too.

    Depending on how far back you want to stand, the stems from a calculated decision by Tehran or its Houthi allies to use drones and missiles on Saudi installations, or on the infantile rage that drove President Trump to tear up a meticulously worked out and globally sponsored accord with Iran and to wreck its economy. But in either case, if you really take in the whole picture, the image

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