Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term
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but....... biden signed more oil drilling contracts than trump did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/06/biden-is-approving-more-oil-gas-drilling-permits-public-lands-than-trump-analysis-finds/
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.
wow very democratic that you cant criticize the other party without seeming like an enemy of your own
we live in good times indeed
Your name and comment are deeply ironic, given the Stalin purges
As someone who isn't from that country, the climate can't survive more USA, who's running it doesn't seem to make much difference.
(Not that they're the only country causing this global disaster of course, just the one highlighted in this post)
From another outsiders perspective the difference seems to be that the Democrats invest in green technologies, whereas the Republicans do not. Both support fossil fuels thou.
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
the only thing that will change is more rigged-to-fail 'attempts' to look like theyre trying
america isn't on a path to fix things, anyone who says otherwise is completely delusional
Correct me if I'm wrong but their military is a huge polluter, and I don't see that as being something either side would change due to the politics around fucking with the military, so it's even more of a problem on top of the already massive problem that is capitalism
Biden has started going down the road of electricifying the military. But of course, slimming down the military is the kind of holy cow neither mainstream party would touch. We are seeing a quasi-worldwide military push anyway, which is unsurprising in the wider context of missing global climate action.
I was referring to burn pits that I've vaguely heard of, feel like they'd still be a pretty large problem
There's more important issues than burn pits tbh:
Wikipedia
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.
I'm sure some bacteria and virus will survive the Venus like conditions for a short while
I don't think anyone questions that humans will survive. It's just unlikely that the complex global supply chain that gives us complex tools like microchips etc will survive. And may be massive famine etc after just a few harvest failure, or after the grain can't go down the rivers to the sea any more. Naturally not for the very rich, you can probably buy a bag of rice at a price. It's not survival that's at stake, its civilization and all that.
Earth will be fine, it's a giant rock. The climate and anything alive is fucked
My fellow Americans, Tuesday is an election day. Get off your asses and vote. I will be making a post Tuesday.
no actually, i wont
ill even register to vote again, then choose not to
and ill do it with a wide smile
The satisfaction of... *checks notes* fucking over yourself?
Maybe there are multiple branches of government making decisions and not only the white house cabinet, it's kind of hard for anyone to get legislation through two chambers of congress when you're effectively a minority in both. Which happens when they don't get enough votes.
So yeah. Fucking yourself over.
That's even without mentioning how republican rule makes things even worse. For everyone, but especially women and minorities.
im a trans woman, i kinda fucking know this. Im just not going to put faith in the US government, who is very well know for explicitly working against every minority on the planet to further its own interests. Fuck that. Did you really think we vote away facism? You really think we live in a fucking democracy because we get to vote every two years?
So yeah I guess im fucking myself over by living in your shitty white settler regime, thanks for changing fuck all.
you want a vote, how about democrats do something besides being blue republicans?
America is a one party state, but in typical american extravagance they have two of them.
While voting rights are eroding and distribution of power is a problem, do you really think this is what a dictatorship looks like?
I'm not American, nor do I live in the US.
so you really actually think we are. You live in a lie, how do you not see how corrupt it is. Lobbying is literally legalized bribery that isn't a fucking democracy.
even a harvard study says we are a plutocracy, not any republic or democracy
applies to all of europe besides ireland, yall Euros are smug in your 'superiority' but are nothing but US doggs sniffing its ass as ya follow along
Are your state legislators or governor on the ballot? They are the ones that are chipping away at rights.
Abortion was last due to Trump's THREE SCOTUS picks.
One of the reasons, if not the reason the GOP wins is they show up.
Speaking of Biden, it isn't a presidential election. More than likely you're going to have loads of local offices. These offices decide things like zoning, which makes a big difference for quality of life and the environment.
What's your objective? Are you trying to dissuade people from voting or something? Again, if people actually showed up, the GOP would not hold many offices anywhere.
and the entire democrat government could just do nothing about it. I wonder why breaking the rules for greed is fine until shit like this happens and then suddenly they all care about procedure and dont do shit.
OK i don't care, MAGA or dem you're still the American Empire. Fuck this place.
vote blue no matter who is just the dem's MAGA. No i will not vote for genocide, fuck off you prick.
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.
That's true. We couldve pulled a Venus, which would suck massive donkey balls.
This is the correct answer
Most Americans actually support measures to deal with it:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32412-y
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/poll-solar-wind-climate-change-rcna119244
We just have to get loud about it and demand officials at all levels act. We have to get loud and make polluting as acceptable as open racism.
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.
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