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First, the headline is an awful miscategorization of reality (no matter how credible the source is). Second, the US public operates within an illusion of freed

First, the headline is an awful miscategorization of reality (no matter how credible the source is). Second, the US public operates within an illusion of freedom. The options aren't up to US public to take action on. The options are up to large corporations and ultra-rich to take action on. My carbon footprint is nowhere near the size of persons such as the Waltons, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or entities such as bitcoin mining farms, OpenAI, BP, Exxon Mobile, Shell, Amazon, Nestle, Walmart, Google, Raytheon. Me riding my bicycle as a primary form of transportation, and eating a homegrown vegetarian diet, does nothing to combat climate change as Kim Kardashian's plane flies overhead. Nothing I do stops Exxon and BP from spilling oil into the waterways, or American car manufacturers from refusing to pivot to renewables. Instead of maintaining a hard line, US government hands out carbon credits to companies for successfully skirting climate regulations. Me choosing to not use cloud computing does nothing to improve that situation. I didn't price the US public out of cities, so that individuals now have to commute over an hour to barely make a living (using even more precious fossil fuels), corporations did that under government supervision.

smackeyacky 3y ago
The whole "climate change is a personal responsibility" thing is a fabrication of those corps who are actually doing the damage. That it gets parroted in the media regularly is shameful. We would like some more options - those that involve pain across the board rather than just targeting the worker drones at the bottom. Like shutting down thermal coal mining and making it an offence. We know already that power generation can be completely handled by renewables as even with our feeble renewable setups we can regularly exceed our power needs. And get them to put nuclear off the table. It has never been, or ever will, be anything other than a dangerous, stupid and expensive way to make power.

smackeyacky 3y ago

The whole "climate change is a personal responsibility" thing is a fabrication of those corps who are actually doing the damage. That it gets parroted in the media regularly is shameful. We would like some more options - those that involve pain across the board rather than just targeting the worker drones at the bottom. Like shutting down thermal coal mining and making it an offence. We know already that power generation can be completely handled by renewables as even with our feeble renewable setups we can regularly exceed our power needs. And get them to put nuclear off the table. It has never been, or ever will, be anything other than a dangerous, stupid and expensive way to make power.