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   <div><h3>We are sadly accustomed by now to the idea that our reliance on oil and gas causes random but predictable outbreaks of…</h3></div>
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    </div><blockquote id="aafe"><p><b>“Were it not for oil, we would never have involved ourselves in a ruinous war with Iraq, destabilising an entire region.”</b><i> Bill McKibben</i></p></blockquote><p id="7123">If any new war is avoided through this energy shift, note the huge double-green benefits: <b>green economically as well as environmentally with trillions in war costs avoided,</b> more than paying for new infrastructure and social progress.</p><p id="f608">For a balanced approac

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Will getting off oil get us off war too?

Left, image from Direct Energy. Right, image from Yannis Behrakis/REUTERS; A US soldier in the Rumaila oil field in Iraq, 2003.

As war looms again in the oil-rich Middle East, green energy could bring an unexpected bonus: peace.

Here’s the case for it:

“Were it not for oil, we would never have involved ourselves in a ruinous war with Iraq, destabilising an entire region.” Bill McKibben

If any new war is avoided through this energy shift, note the huge double-green benefits: green economically as well as environmentally with trillions in war costs avoided, more than paying for new infrastructure and social progress.

For a balanced approach to a better future, with clearer minds in control, see this article:

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