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What about the trillions of dollars per year in damages, health costs, etc. due to emissions?
by ragequittah 1y ago
What about the trillions of dollars per year in damages, health costs, etc. due to emissions?
- Forgeties79 1y agoExactly my point. People always want to be nit picky about solar and wind costs, which I agree we should be, but the same scrutiny hardly gets applied to the fossil fuel industry.
- prepend 1y agoWhat about them? Include them in cost comparisons. The answer to this problem is more precise and complete comparisons, not fewer.
- Forgeties79 1y ago> Include them in cost comparisons. Our point is that they aren't. Find a single study the fossil fuel industry funds, hell even accepts, that includes the longterm environmental and health costs. They’ll never agree it’s accurate. This ripples out to their proponents. We have a US president touting “clean coal” in 2025. What else is there to say? > Our Nation’s beautiful clean coal resources will be critical to meeting the rise in electricity demand due to the resurgence of domestic manufacturing and the construction of artificial intelligence data processing centers. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/rein...