, Columnist
The Ecoterrorism Is Coming From Inside the White House
Black smoke rising from an ongoing fire following an airstrike on Tehran’s Shahran oil facility.
Photographer: AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump calls environmentalists “terrorists.” Yet he is responsible for destroying more oil and gas infrastructure, and possibly more fossil-fuel demand, than the most optimistic ecoterrorist could in their wildest dreams.
By going to war with Iran, the president, who has been openly hostile toward the clean-energy transition, may unintentionally turn out to be one of its greatest allies.