A white man's war

Whichever way you look at it, the Ukraine war is being driven by white men and their patriarchal values, at the forefront of a world shaped by the carbon economy.

Fossil fuels not only determine the economic model implemented since the 18th century, but also the cultural and subjective conformation, the building of values ​​built around masculine symbols of power and imposed by the global minority that has led the planet to climatic collapse.

This is the framework of this war, which can exterminate the future of the human species.

Not only because of the nuclear risk, but also because of further shrinking the climatic margin.

There is a relationship between the phallic images of oil rigs and the scenes of heightened masculinity calculatedly produced by autocrats like Vladimir Putin.

It expresses subjectivities linked to the objective strategy of delaying the substitution of fossil energy for renewable energy.

It is notorious that countries like Russia are dedicated to delaying change by blocking progress at climate summits and using their robots to produce misinformation about global warming.

Putin has not started his conflict due to climate imperative, but without oil and gas, Russia would not have been able to secure its war chest.

Without oil and gas, Russia—and not only Russia—loses firepower.

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Oil and gas, however, have their days numbered.

A study published last November by the scientific journal

showed that half of the world's fossil assets will be worthless by 2036. Coincidentally, the year Putin plans to leave power.

Countries that delay decarbonization will lose the most.

And this is the path Putin is leading Russia down.

But if Putin is a sinister character, that does not exempt Joe Biden and European leaders, who are also playing with marked cards.

What has been the great bet of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz?

Announce an investment of 100,000 million euros in his armed forces.

This is another war of white men clinging to the past while the future of the planet's human generations—and nationalities matter little—is doomed a little more every day.

A war that consumes enormous efforts that should be directed at creating a world of renewable energies coated with other values.

If as a result of this war the fossil fuel corporations manage to increase gas production in countries like the United States and encourage countries like Brazil to drill more because the price of oil has risen, the merchants of the past will have won and been robbed much of the future to the generation of Greta Thunberg and Txai Suruí.

Some respectable analysts claim that the third world war has already begun.

It's possible.

What we can say is that the narrow margin we have to control global overheating, announced on Monday by the terrifying report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has already been reduced.

If the war expands, it could disappear.

And we with him.

Translation by Meritxell Almarza.

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