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How the US-Israel-Iran war is revealing our overdependency on fossil fuels

How the US-Israel-Iran war is revealing our overdependency on fossil fuels

The war between the US, Israel, and Iran is driving up the price of oil and sending shockwaves around the world -- especially in Asia, which relies heavily on oil from the Middle East. But the ongoing oil crisis is also highlighting our global overdependency on fossil fuels. We speak with a reporter in Bangladesh about the situation in Asia, and Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist and a professor at the University of Alberta, about whether this is the moment that forces world leaders to rethink where they get their energy from.

The Current · CBC

March 18, 202618m 11s

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The war between the US, Israel, and Iran is driving up the price of oil and sending shockwaves around the world -- especially in Asia, which relies heavily on oil from the Middle East. But the ongoing oil crisis is also highlighting our global overdependency on fossil fuels. We speak with a reporter in Bangladesh about the situation in Asia, and Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist and a professor at the University of Alberta, about whether this is the moment that forces world leaders to rethink where they get their energy from.