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Climate change is the latest weapon in warfare. Trump is indulging it

The Iran war shows how fossil fuels, conflict and planetary crisis are now inseparable

Published March 17, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

The day before President Donald Trump ordered bombs dropped on Iran, he visited a Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, just one of several seemingly innocuous stops in the Lone Star State. He was mostly there to celebrate a dredging project allowing larger ships to come to that city’s port, already the largest gateway for energy imports in the U.S.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright was also present, as the president and other officials celebrated the first tanker of Venezuelan oil’s Corpus Christi arrival. For some reason, a song by Sinéad O’Connor played in the background. “Millions and millions of barrels of oil are pouring right in here. It’s a great thing,” Trump said.

It was either totally surreal or totally normal in the context of this particular presidency. Less than two months ago, the Trump administration had captured — essentially kidnapped — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Now he was casually hinting that the administration would do regime change again, this time in Iran instead of Venezuela, all while putzing around a city that’s on the brink of running out of water.

“Without significant rainfall, Corpus Christi is headed for a ‘water emergency’ within months and total depletion of the system next year, according to the city’s website,” Inside Climate News reported this week. The situation has been intensified by historic drought that has shifted precipitation patterns. What better place for Trump to celebrate the very petrochemicals that are causing these dramatic shifts — which could actually make it harder to import or export energy in the future. After all, you can’t refine crude oil into gasoline, or ship it anywhere,........

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