Fossil Fuel Reliance Is Ripping Away Nations' Security, UN Says

The war in the Middle East is exposing the high cost of dependence on fossil fuels—it is “ripping away national security and sovereignty,” the UN climate secretary told an EU summit on Monday. “Sunlight doesn’t depend on narrow and vulnerable shipping straits, wind blows without massive taxpayer-funded naval escorts [and] renewable energy allows countries to insulate themselves from global turmoil and to side-step might-is-right politics,” Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework…