but… biden signed more oil drilling contracts than trump did.
can it survive another bullshit neolib puppet? we need progressives, not corporate lib shills.
DISCLAIMER FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU CAN AND SHOULD CRITICIZE YOUR OWN PARTY WITHOUT SUPPORTING THE OTHER: I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN.
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Your name and comment are deeply ironic, given the Stalin purges
Can’t survive another Biden term either. It’s the planet or capitalism and the people in charge would rather kill us all than end capitalism.
What he’s been able to do has been limited by the most conservative Democrat whose vote was needed to pass legislation.
Get a better congress along with a Biden reelection, and it puts us into the we-stand-a-chance range
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My fellow Americans, Tuesday is an election day. Get off your asses and vote. I will be making a post Tuesday.
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The satisfaction of… *checks notes* fucking over yourself?
The climate is just not going to survive period. Democrats also don’t have the will to do anything on this topic.
The climate will be fine, we however, are fucked.
Earth will be fine, it’s a giant rock. The climate and anything alive is fucked
The climate will be just fine (give or take a few tens of thousands of years). It’s us and all complex organisms above a certain size that are fucked.
This is the correct answer
Can’t make any assumptions one way or another. We’re dealing with positive feedback loops, so even if humans all get Thanos-snapped out of existence RIGHT NOW putting a full stop to emissions, pollution, etc, the environment will continue to worsen on its own because of the downward spirals we’ve set into motion.
The question is how long those feedback loops can go until they’re broken naturally; or if they even can be broken naturally.
We may well have set our planet on a warming path that ends with it being molten, or one that sheds our atmosphere into space.
So… things might fix themselves after we go extinct; or it’ll get worse until even the most resilient of extremophiles can’t carry on, and Earth becomes another lifeless rock floating in space.
/shrug
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MORE fear porn, Kbin? No thanks, I’ve had quite enough.
America is not the world. The rest of yall need to get off your fucking asses and do somethIng instead of letting America do it all for you.
you know the US is the biggest polluter in the world, right? in particular the US military.
China, the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, produces 12.7 billion metric tons of emissions annually. That dwarfs U.S. emissions, currently about 5.9 billion tons annually
What about China? Are you purposely ignoring China because you’re a tankie? I’m not saying the US is innocent but it seems like you’re not being entirely factual here about the biggest polluters.
Also, I wasn’t able to find the info all in one place but the figures I’m seeing about military carbon footprints are as follows between the two nations:
US: 59,000,000,000 tons
China: 95,000,000,000 tons
So, I obviously agree that the US has a carbon footprint problem but you seem to be putting most of the blame on the second largest offender and ignroing the first. A suspicious thing to do for anyone other than a tankie, looking to distort the truth.
Two obvious things: China has 2-3 x the people. Maybe adjust to a per person basis? Or a per GDP ratio if you are so inclined. Also, most of the stuff for sale comes from China - so we just moved our emissions there. This is super hard to adjust for, but should be considered a bit.
On your second point, I’m mainly referring to military carbon footprints.
I’ll do the GDP scaling when I’m not out and about unless you want to do it first.
Given where the piece was published, it was pretty clearly aimed at convincing Americans to act
