Thread by @KHayhoe

"The real lesson from the battlefields of Ukraine is that Britain [fill in your country's name here] needs to rid itself of its fossil fuel addiction entirely and become self-reliant on electricity that is generated cleanly and efficiently."theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Talking to an expert who studies the oil & gas economy the other day, he told me that a country can never be energy independent while depending on fossil fuels, even if their production = consumption, since they are still tied to OPEC and the global market.

As @NRDC's @johnbowman argues here, "Clean energy doesn’t mean the end of geopolitics. [But when our source is clean energy], we reduce our reliance on nations that use energy as a weapon. We make our economy stronger and our country more secure." nrdc.org/experts/john-b…

And as Ukrainian climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska says, “the money that's invested in fossil fuels, they're using against us. Against freedom. Against humanity."
But “if we all unite against climate change, we can survive as a civilisation." bbc.com/news/science-e…