Our addiction will kill us
I practiced law for 35 years, and during that time I represented hundreds of people who were addicted to substances of various kinds. Addiction means denial; denial of the problem, and denial of its consequences.
The same dynamic is at play with a world economy dangerously addicted to fossil fuels. The addict-in-chief is willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, and kill thousands of innocent lives, so that we can continue to feed our insatiable addiction to a dirty 19th-century fuel that is the primary contributor to air pollution and climate change.
Imagine, if you will, that we could replace our addiction to fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy that are virtually limitless, far cleaner, that can’t be embargoed, and which would render the Middle East in general, and the Straits of Hormuz in particular, geopolitically irrelevant. The world would be cleaner and safer.
The first step to recovering from addiction is acknowledging the problem.