{"id":71040,"date":"2026-04-07T05:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/a-new-economic-superpower-could-spark-a-global-retreat-from-fossil-fuels-mark-hertsgaard-and-kyle-pope\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:54:54","slug":"a-new-economic-superpower-could-spark-a-global-retreat-from-fossil-fuels-mark-hertsgaard-and-kyle-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/a-new-economic-superpower-could-spark-a-global-retreat-from-fossil-fuels-mark-hertsgaard-and-kyle-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>This article is published as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Iran war is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/from-us-story\/the-iran-war-is-also-a-climate-war\/\">climate war<\/a>. Beyond its terrible human costs, the war\u2019s disruptions of oil, gas, fertilizer and other shipments is another reminder of the risks inherent in basing the world economy on fossil fuels. The war\u2019s jets, missiles and aircraft carriers, and the tankers, refineries and buildings they blow up, represent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/21\/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate\">millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> that further imperil a climate system that is already \u201cvery close\u201d to a point of no return, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PIK_Climate\/status\/2021628266915017165?s=20\">scientists say<\/a>, after which runaway global warming could not be stopped. Nevertheless, petrostate leaders around the world continue doing their utmost to stave off a desperately needed course correction.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a little noticed ray of hope may be peeking over the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are co-founders of the global journalism collaboration <a href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/\">Covering Climate Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/07\/iran-war-oil-phase-out-fossil-fuels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite This article is published as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now The Iran war is also a climate war. Beyond its terrible human costs, the war\u2019s disruptions of oil, gas, fertilizer and &#8230; <a title=\"A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/a-new-economic-superpower-could-spark-a-global-retreat-from-fossil-fuels-mark-hertsgaard-and-kyle-pope\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}