Climate change if a defining issue in this election? What? Since when?
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The climate is already lost. It's pretty much a non-issue. It's just a matter of who can keep us from dying the fastest.
How we act now will determine how hard the landing is.
Except Harris actually wants to expand what is already the largest federal push to replace fossil fuels, and Trump wants to stop those programs.
One is better than the other.
the largest federal push to replace fossil fuels, and Trump wants to stop those programs.
trump wants to stop them cuz Biden did it ..
The fossil fuel companies want trump to keep it because it's making them so much money while they've set recording breaking production the last two years...
Republicans and moderates have lowered the bar so much since Jimmy Carter, that you can't even remember what a Dem candidate is supposed to look like
trump wants to stop them cuz Biden did it …
Generally speaking, this is exactly on point. If the GOP guy wins, he'll stop the program that Biden launched.
Then he'll work with the big rich companies to create a new program that has his name on it, that's even bigger and worse.
The fossil fuel companies want trump to keep it because it’s making them so much money while they’ve set recording breaking production the last two years…
Wait, so the fossil fuel companies want to keep Biden's push to replace fossil fuels? Because it's been making them money?
Actually, that's good. If even the fossil fuel companies want them replaced...
Republicans and moderates have lowered the bar so much since Jimmy Carter, that you can’t even remember what a Dem candidate is supposed to look like
My answer: AOC
You mean the one that now says she supports fracking? The one helping contribute via proxy war hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon into the atmosphere?
Yes, that one who has allowed her views to evolve and showing a willingness to compromise to show she'll support the wishes of everyone in the US.
Of the two, who has better odds on (for example) being convinced to return to a ban on fracking? The one who previously sought to ban it, or the one who racistly said that climate change was a hoax from a particular country half way around the world?
Fossil fuel corporations have asked trump to leave Biden's "signature climate legislation" if trump wins, because it's making them so much money...
And Harris is explicitly pro-fracking, has been since she cast the vote that prevented it from being banned.
What's the point of winning if we don't fix stuff after we do?
I optimistically have hope that things will get fixed, once Dems are able to drop the filibuster so new legislation at the federal level is possible again.
Though that depends on Dems retaining the Senate in this election, or taking it back in 2026.
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