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Cost of Oil Wars versus Renewables (midwest.social)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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A report estimated the cost to stop using oil and natural gas for the USA in 2019 to be $4.5 Trillion and that this is similar to what we USA paid for the "War on Terror".

The 2003 Iraq War cost 1.4 Trillion directly and maybe 2.4 Trillion in finance charges.

Note: I am not saying these wars were necessarily due to oil, but they may have gone differently.

I wonder how much USA oil wars have cost compared to moving to solar, wind, and battery?

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[–] 5 points 7 months ago

It is also not just the US. Russia, Saudia Arabia, UAE and Iran are all petrostates, which have a long history of exporting war. Not quite on the same level as the US, but still a lot. When you add that up about half the wars are oil wars in this century.

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    You might find https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/the-thermodynamic-limits-of-human relevant.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    In what way is it relevant? (I read the opening paragraphs, and do not see the connection.)

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The relevance is in the assumpion is that renewable infrastructure can be built and maintained without fossils and that energy is fungible, so that electricity can substitute all fossil use and sustain a technological society in general.

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