13 March

The Iliad talks about how the use of force usually rebounds on those who begin it, in ways that they never predicted and which often destroys them as well. It’s a glorious irony of Trump and Israel’s offensive in Iran that it may single-handedly destroy fossil fuel-driven societies faster than years of hopeless activism could have dreamed of. It may turn out to be the tipping point towards a rapid move away from the use of fossil fuels.