There are always people with more greed than morals. Good they caught him, shame it took so long.

It appears you very much misunderstand the impact of global climate change

That would lower the temperature by about 5 degrees Celsius compared to sea level, which doesn’t help enough with African temperatures.

Which the savannahs are not though.

Europe should not get together with Russia. Putin can get fucked.

I’m not saying we can break our reliance on fossil fuel in short term, just saying that we should work towards it. Cooperating with Russia is also not feasible in the short term, so that just leaves iran and china. The question is if that can be enough.

Whether it is or not, we should start subsidizing circular agriculture anyway, because fossil fuels are limited and going to run out in any case. Europe should try to be independent of the rest of the world before that happens. This does mean that more people will have to work in food production, but we also need new technologies for reliable susta8 good production.

We can still do with more solar and wind power, but we’ll also need to invest heavily in long term energy storage. In the end that will be much better than nuclear energy which will only prolong our dependency on fuels from unstable dictatorships.

True, but the amounts needed for that are much lower, and can be bought from countries in other parts of the world.

The addition of Russia would be a more formidable force.

Russia hardly has any navy left. But even if they did, Putin can not be trusted not to screw Europe over every chance he gets.

They can try Venezuela

They are not going to get together with Russia as long as it’s busy invading Ukraine, and rightfully so. They could get together with China and Iran, but then the US would probably block the strait of Hormuz for ships bound for Europe and China.

What they should do is make every possible effort to break the dependence on fossil fuels as soon as possible.

Link without paywall https://archive.ph/EiK7x

Spoiler: it’s for an oil company based in America