Apparently the most important positive outcome from the war with Iran is that it has the potential to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels according to Gaia’s acolytes at Reuters, not knocking out the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror.
“Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence,” celebrated Anna Hirtenstein and Kate Abnett on March 18.
The Reuters duo wrote policy makers are “rethinking ways to reduce long-term dependence on oil and gas imports, with proposals to expand nuclear energy and renewables, grow strategic stockpiles and domestic production, and diversify foreign sources of supply.”
Everyone should apparently take notes from — get this — China. “Renewables, EV dominance insulates China from oil price shock … China is already the world's leading source of clean energy technologies.”
Hirtenstein and Abnett drummed up agitprop that Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz is signaling to the world that “the fossil fuel age must end, after pushback in recent years to ongoing efforts to mitigate climate change.”
Reuters already has a bad habit of kissing the feet of the communist regime in Beijing over its phony fixation on greening its energy infrastructure. Check out this September 25 Reuters headline: “China leads nations with new climate plans, defying US climate denial.” In that so-called news item, reporters Valerie Volcovici and Yukun Zhan boasted that China’s new climate plans “offered a veiled rebuke of the U.S. president's anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly.”
Yes, they actually used the term “anti-climate,” as if President Donald Trump opposes the weather or something. The fact that Reuters is back being Xi Jinping’s collective of useful idiots is just par for the course.
Climate expert and Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg wrote in a March 11 op-ed that the media outlets celebrating China’s green thumb were just being blatantly dishonest. “China is indeed churning out solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries that flood global markets — proof, advocates say, of an inevitable green transition. Yet these supposed marvels are forged amid overwhelming and surging use of fossil fuels, particularly coal.” In a nutshell, rebuked Lomborg, “Green China is a sham.” No kidding!
There’s a lot of nuance that Reuters chose to ignore. Color us shocked (not)! The Council of Foreign Relations released a March 18 report admitting that the Strait of Hormuz debacle is predominantly causing chaos in Asia, “where nearly every country is highly dependent on Middle Eastern oil,” including China. Specifically, wrote senior fellow, Joshua Kurlantzick “the war has caused outright energy panic [across Asia], with governments scrambling to respond and having few short-term answers.” Kurlantzick contextualized that China is “is the world’s biggest oil importer – it imports significant amounts of oil from Iran as well as Venezuela, which is no longer an option for Beijing – and other major Asian economies like Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, India, and Thailand are almost completely dependent on foreign oil.”
“Biggest oil importer” eh? You think Hirtenstein and Abnett bothered to point that out when they were fangirling over China being the "world's leading source of clean energy technologies?" Nope! So much for China being the proverbial Green Lantern of the world.
