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Meanwhile China has reached their 2030 goal of peak CO2 emissions 5 years early by rapidly deploying solar/wind/nuclear and manufacturing cheap EVs for personal
by ndiddy 1y ago
Meanwhile China has reached their 2030 goal of peak CO2 emissions 5 years early by rapidly deploying solar/wind/nuclear and manufacturing cheap EVs for personal transport. I wish the US was capable of working towards and achieving large-scale societal goals like that.
- rjbwork 1y agoWe are. Just look at the current administration. What they've accomplished in just 6 months is staggering. We've just let the wrong sort of people control our communication infrastructure, set the messages disseminated by that infrastructure, and take power in a multi-pronged attack. There's no reason there couldn't have been an FDR-esque strongman driven emulation of China's approach. Instead we're blowing up the national debt, cutting services, dismantling soft power, destroying our scientific and academic infrastructure, and expanding the military.
- Spoom 1y agoArguably Americans voted for all of that, though. It was laid out in a document that was public years in advance.
- rjbwork 1y agoWell, there are varying opinions on that. I agree with you somewhat, but many that "voted for that" have said otherwise and either 1) didn't ever hear about said document or 2) actively dismissed it as "fake news" or 3) believed the president when he said he'd never heard of it and it wouldn't be his agenda.
- evan_ 1y agoTrump himself, and his spokespeople, all publicly denied that they had anything to do with Project 2025 ahead of the election. It was a laughable lie, the only people who believed it were apparently the media, who reported it as fact.
- exe34 1y agoAnd the numpties who voted for him.
- LeifCarrotson 1y agoIt's always easier to tear things down than it is to build things, the past 6 months are staggering but not because they're impressive.
- sunflowerfly 1y agoWe once were. We built canals, a massive railroad system, then our interstate system. Likely a sign of our slow decline to a has been country. Today we should be building subways, a hub and spoke high speed rail system, and an automated hub and spoke freight system that uses trucks only for first and last mile. And maybe a tunnel at the Bering straight.