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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Fore sure — but this is a climate community, so I'm talking about that.

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lemmy.world

Sorry, I was being glib- but in all seriousness, he threatens climate on a much larger scale too. He wants to dismantle the EPA.

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He’s a fundamental threat to the planet, democracy, parks, our kids, women, etc etc etc.

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North Carolina has never needed to worry about global warming, it's just a liberal hoax anyway.

The mountains surely didn't flood last month, so they should be fine.

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Localized stories tell people that it matters for them. That's important when you have a potential swing state.

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Fair point. I guess this is just me voicing my frustrations on how so many people in the states just don’t really give a shit about things unless they are directly impacted.

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lemmy.ca

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. […] The reality is the United States is already dominant. The country is expected to produce 13.2 million barrels of oil per day on average this year — millions of barrels more than Saudi Arabia or Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/

The slightly-lesser evil is still omnicidally evil.

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can't easily just say no.

They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.

numerical non-graph form of the data is here

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Derekreply
slrpnk.net

I've never seen this chart. What a story!

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