Iranians protested the rise in gasoline price by blocking streets. The state responded with tear gas, bullets, and blocking the internet. Estimates are that around 70 people were killed.

We must end subsidies for fossil fuels — global heating disaster threatens to kill billions of people a few decades from now. We would be fools to delay that for any reason whatsoever. Thus, governments need to develop a way to do that without short-term suffering for the poor.