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> Transitioning to renewable regional and local energy generation and storage will reduce political risk to humanity dramatically by enabling the decoupling of
by throw0101c 4y ago
> Transitioning to renewable regional and local energy generation and storage will reduce political risk to humanity dramatically by enabling the decoupling of geopolitics from oil.
We had geopolitics before oil. Just ask the Athenians and Spartans or Romans and Carthaginians. The Mongols didn't go running around Eurasia for oil, and neither did Napoleon around Europe.
Oil may be less thing, but there are others. Per Thucydides, three fundamental motives are: fear, honour, interest.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_W...
- enslavedrobot 4y agoFear of getting invaded over your resources yes. Energy is the most valuable resource today. If it is no longer concentrated regionally then the driving force for war is greatly reduced.