The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable. Environmentalists are now being seen for the pragmatists that they are
There’s a broader thing here. Trump is not `pro’ a particular policy or agenda, just that he wants markets to swing wildly. Why? Because you can make a fast buck by day-trading with just a smidge of future information.
This means all the things the US can easily make unreliable will be unreliable. Which means that everything around it will become more robust/stable/hard to perturb (if it can, if not it will break). Energy is a clear place where we can build it robustly and widely distributed, so Trump is helpful. Other things (like, say, global finance, borders, and trust in institutional experts) are probably not easily patched.
That kind of wild unreliability drives people to home solar, batteries, and electric vehicles
As a European, President Donald Trump has done so much for us. He has created unity like no president of the Commission or Parliament ever has. He sparked a green transition across the entire continent that not even the most powerful fossil fuel lobbies can stop. He made EU enlargement so attractive that frozen applicants are resuming their integration process. And most importantly, he has instilled the will of independence in Europeans.
Now of course his intention was destructive, but he has accomplished so much that no politician in my home ever has. President Donald Trump, stand proud, you accomplished a lot in a year.
“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.”
- Eric Hoffman
Im not content with just treating him like the heel of global politics though, because unfortunately he can win, and could really set the world back further. It also has Overton window shifting effect, where other authoritarians, if we can’t oppose him on principle and soundly, can justify that at least they arent him.
Something something bribery backfiring. Something something Dark Side.
