Guardian Experts Discover Resource Wars Are Bad for Climate
The Guardian warns that Trump's alleged plan to 'drill, baby, drill' in Venezuela, following an improbable removal of Maduro, would be 'terrible for the climate.' This sudden concern for ecological impact conveniently overlooks decades of U.S.-backed coups and interventions for oil, from Iran in '53 to Iraq in '03. Experts finally sound the alarm when Trump speaks the quiet part out loud about
seizing the world's largest oil reserves. One might wonder if these 'experts' were equally alarmed when U.S. sanctions crippled Venezuela's economy for years, contributing to instability that also impacts the environment, just in less direct ways. Or when U.S. oil companies historically extracted fortunes. The climate crisis, it seems, only becomes 'terrible' when a specific villain, in a specific
country, states a policy that has been the unstated norm for generations of 'foreign policy.'