Also worth pointing out that our world is so oil-dependent that increasing the price of oil will almost certainly increase the price of everything else.
Food, medication, housing. People across the globe will feel the consequences.
I don’t mean to minimize the direct deaths of the war. And yes, there will be plenty of people in the US who are driving pickup trucks getting 10mpg who will but h and mlan about how they can only afford to go on 2 tropical cruise vacations this year instead of 3 because of the increased gas price. But there will be people who lose their lives from the indirect economic consequences of this too.
And yes, this could have been prevented in a lot of ways: by moving the global economy away from fossil fuels alng time ago, or by not having a war. But the people in positions to make those decisions are not the ones who will suffer the most from them.
Also worth pointing out that our world is so oil-dependent that increasing the price of oil will almost certainly increase the price of everything else.
Food, medication, housing. People across the globe will feel the consequences.
I don’t mean to minimize the direct deaths of the war. And yes, there will be plenty of people in the US who are driving pickup trucks getting 10mpg who will but h and mlan about how they can only afford to go on 2 tropical cruise vacations this year instead of 3 because of the increased gas price. But there will be people who lose their lives from the indirect economic consequences of this too.
And yes, this could have been prevented in a lot of ways: by moving the global economy away from fossil fuels alng time ago, or by not having a war. But the people in positions to make those decisions are not the ones who will suffer the most from them.