‘How to reduce the power of a petrostate? Get off fossil fuels as quickly as we can’
One of the main lessons from the war in Ukraine is that the world needs to finally ‘go green’, climate justice expert Naomi Klein says Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Oil, like other fossil resources, often causes violence and wars. In 2003, the US started a war in Iraq, according to some, seeking to gain control of the oil fields. Twenty years later, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, financing it with money from oil and gas exports. Much has changed in the past year.