THE Strait of Hormuz narrows to just 39 km wide. Through this needle’s eye passes about a fifth of the world’s oil consumption. When Teheran effectively closed it to most international shipping amid the Middle East conflict, the world watched this chokepoint with bated breath.
In this crisis, a glaring truth emerged that often gets lost in environmental summits and carbon-neutral pledges: the fight against fossil fuels is not just a fight for the planet; it's also a fight for the very architecture of global financial control.
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