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[OPINION] A surprise win for climate survival?

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[OPINION] A surprise win for climate survival?
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The Iran war is also a climate war. Beyond its terrible human costs, the war’s disruptions of oil, gas, fertilizer, and other shipments are another reminder of the risks inherent in basing the world economy on fossil fuels. The war’s jets, missiles, and aircraft carriers, and the tankers, refineries, and buildings they blow up, represent millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions that further imperil a climate system that is already “very close” to a point of no return,

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