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Originally Posted by Drake
I think Occams Razor is best applied to this situation..... the simplest explanation is that people moved out of the way of bullets, machetes, bombs, rape, slavery, drowning cages, etc...seeking food, clean water, shelter... not fleeing the effects of climate change. In other words, even if every family in Syria had a unlimited supply of chickpea hummus on their tables they would still be fleeing for their lives.
Drake
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I agree with the principle that the simplest explanation makes sense.
There would not have been any bullets, bombs, or "mother of all wars" had the US and Europe been self sufficient in energy.
But instead we have chosen a policy of developing the Middle East oil supply as part of US national policy. We have spent trillions of dollars on the various Gulf wars and "war on Terror". Had those trillions of dollars been spent on research, development and manufacture of renewable energy we would now be the undisputed leader in this major field, we would be self sufficient in energy, and probably half of the motivation for war in the Middle
East would not have been there.
The other half is a consequence of our burning that fossil fuel, also would have been mitigated by a policy of energy self sufficiency. This is the policy that Carter was pushing when he was president. However, a phony oil crisis was manufactured by shutting down a few refineries, this in turn pushed Carter out and replaced him with Reagan and the oil men. And, from that point on we have been fully committed to the "petro dollar". Our current situation is not due to Obama or Trump, it is due to that scheme in the late 70s (some say Kissinger was the architect).