Why Trump can't stop states from fighting climate change
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The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billions of dollars for people to electrify their homes and pumped billions more into the clean energy economy — neither Congress nor the […]
  • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Yes, we will. Or we’ll die. We won’t die. A lot of people will die, and it will be horrible. We won’t do enough and we won’t do it fast enough or soon enough. But we will do it.

    • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
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      13 days ago

      No nation-state in my lifetime has taken the real and necessary steps to mitigate/slow it.

      Tankies will crow about China, but the truth is that China adopted the happy motoring lifestyle after relying on bicycles for decades.

      Unless you drastically reduce cars and airplanes and cargo ships, nothing will change. Unless we pretty much stop eating beef, nothing will change.

      If you actually priced environmental damage into the cost of oil, literally no business would be profitable. Instead we even subsidize it. The result is the world we have now.

      We will suck every drop of oil from the ground even as we are choking on the CO2