Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine will impact how the world addresses the
challenge of climate change. In the short term, it will lead to a scramble to
find new fossil fuel sources for European countries. It will impact food
distribution from Ukraine to food-challenged areas in Africa. But in the
longer timeframe, it will hasten Europe's conversion from fossil fuel energy
to alternatives including renewables. Meanwhile, the people of Ukraine will be
the victims of a bully who is acting out on the world stage because he can't
accept a Russia that is diminished from the one that was the former Soviet
Union.