https://www.scmp.com/rss/525598/feed Ben Newell is a professor in the School of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response at the University of New South Wales. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Wesley Morgan,Ben Newell Wesley Morgan,Ben Newell US President Donald Trump is a long-time climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as “drill, baby, drill”. Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and electric vehicles. After the US and Israel struck Iran in late February, Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz and triggered the largest disruption of oil supply in history. Ironically for Trump and his oil industry donors, this crisis may be an irreversible... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3351337/trumps-oil-crisis-accelerating-end-fossil-fuel-era?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3351337/trumps-oil-crisis-accelerating-end-fossil-fuel-era?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:00:09 +0000