A nuclear armed Iran would be destabilising, dangerous and unpredictable. The world has become largely dependent on oil from the Middle East and expects the U.S. to keep it flowing. If Iran caused the flow to stop or to slow, all the West’s economies would suffer and food production would be very badly hit. The problem for the U.S. administration is whether to risk an highly unpopular invasion now or face greater problems later.

The chances are that after the experience in Iraq, an invasion will not take place. Instead the U.S. will arm it’s allies to try to contain Iran. Time magazine reported this week that $20 billion of new U.S. arms will be going to Saudi Arabia and neighbouring gulf states plus $13 billion worth for Egypt. Israel could get $30 billion worth of weaponry. Only time will tell whether or not all this weaponry will help to keep the peace or make things worse.

A far better way would be for the West to take measures to reduce oil consumption to make us less vulnerable to future events in the Middle East.

The award was originally created by Climate of Our Future to recognise bloggers who “are trying to build awareness among their readership in order to create a more sustainable and enlightened future.”

BLOGGERS FOR POSITIVE CHANGE AWARD

Our thanks go to Sara from Farming Friends who was kind enough to nominate us.  Amongst other things, Sara writes a blog  of everyday life on her 250 acre arable and livestock farm.  Her video clip of a lamb being born is well worth a look.

We in turn nominate the following blogs for the Positive Global Change Award:

1)  The Oil Drum – A thought provoking website that discusses energy and our future

2) Peak Oil - a site that posts news on peak oil

3) Climate Ark – the original biocenric climate science, policy and advocacy search engine Read more