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The Coming Ecological Cold War

Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution. September 1, 2025, 7:00 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

An illustration shows a wind turbine cleaving the globe in half, rising out of its broken-open center. The ocean in one hemisphere is orange; in the other, it's green.

Four years ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published a landmark report , “Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector,” that proposed a technical blueprint for a global green energy transition by the middle of this century. The report focused on the economic and technological dimensions of this energy transition. It was an admirable effort that calls for careful study.

But the report was also marked by t

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