I don't mean to downplay the environment, but I think we'll have a long list of worries... 🫨
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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This is a c/climate, so we're talking climate. Lots of other reasons to prefer Biden over Trump (and to avoid third-party candidates)
And none of those other worries will matter when you starve to death because we fucked our ecosysten which we get our food from.
A lot of those worries are worries exactly because they divide and distract people.
Abortion was resolved in the 1970s... Until politicians found they could win votes and divide people by putting the right for a woman to have control over her body into the discourse; demonizing people and lying about abortion being baby killing is a great way to control people.
Migration, economy, even healthcare will all be fucked if we dont address the climate.
Google climate refugee, dengue fever climate change and climate disaster costs if you dont believe me.
At risk of by chance being somehow miraculously reached? The climate goals will soon be as dead as the polar bears.
continued existence of capitalism does that already
"could" ffs
But he might bring about the complete collapse of the US... which would result in less emissions.
Try to be more optimistic!
Funny joke, but fer serious...
A complete collapse of the US wouldn't mean a carbon free utopia, it would mean corporations would be the defacto government (they already pretty much are, but we still have weekends and pollution control. Megacorps will turn everything into the mining towns of old where everyone is completely owned by the mining companies and pollution controls, labor laws and healthcare are non-existant.
Yeah I was just being fatuous.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpus2&f=m let's petroleum production as at a near all time high. Let's not pretend Biden is doing a bang up job on climate. We need more seats in Congress on top of the Presidency to make meaningful change.
He's not perfect, but petroleum is only part of it. What he's done has been to put in place the policies which will enable future decarbonization
It's better than Republican policy, but it's not where it could be with a representative further left on the spectrum.
That would only work if there was a majority for left-wing policy. Simply having a president who's further on the left would not actually change that much of they have to find compromises with people who don't care about the physical reality.
Tell everyone you know in Michigan to vote. The rest of us barely matter
Could?