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Democrats express no urgency, offer no clear plan, on the climate crisis at DNC (therealnews.com)
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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here’s a high level summary of the plan. Stuff like:

To reach net-zero emissions as rapidly as possible, Democrats commit to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035 through technology-neutral standards for clean energy and energy efficiency. We will dramatically expand solar and wind energy deployment through community-based and utility-scale systems, including in rural areas. Within five years, we will install 500 million solar panels, including eight million solar roofs and community solar energy systems, and 60,000 wind turbines

And so on

The implementation of the last plan was to spend about a trillion dollars of corporate-tax-increase money on climate change, resulting in about half a billion tons of CO2e per year reduction by the year 2030. Here’s an overview.

[–] Five 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

We will take immediate action to reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous and destructive rollbacks of critical climate and environmental protections. We will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement

Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement in early 2021. Have they not updated their climate platform in 3 years?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

4 years 🧐

You are 100% correct; I just checked the platform via archive.org and it seems like it's exactly the same climate platform as last election's. I mean they did great stuff (relatively speaking for Washington 😢) the last time around but maybe the criticism that she hasn't laid out a specific plan is fair.

However

Why is this "therealnews.com" linking to someone who has a whole show about how Maduro won the election?

Why does this story include this stuff:

I was a former Democrat voter. That’s not the case for this election. I’m going to be voting for Gaza this election. And I was really disappointed by the Biden administration’s stance towards Gaza, and that’s going to reflect in my vote this time.

I feel like a big issue is definitely the southern border. A lot of people don’t care enough about it or don’t talk about it enough, but I grew up in Chicago, and every day, it’s definitely different seeing all the migrants being here. And I think it’s great, that we need to help people and all that, but we’re not even helping our own people that have been here their entire lives and born and raised here. So, I think the immigration issue is probably the biggest issue that I would have with it, and I would hope other people care to think about it as well.

Emphasis on "Democrat voter" is mine.

[–] Five -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish you wouldn't try to derail the conversation.

Merely being better than Trump was 4 years ago is not going to stop climate change. This criticism of Biden and Harris needs to be amplified, not sidetracked.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish you wouldn't try to derail the conversation.

Examining the source of the claim is not derailing. If it's a climate news agency that's saying hey we need this or this from the Democrats because it's a fuckin emergency, then fair play.

If however it's a "news" agency that is saying, the Democrats are bad on the climate and Gaza and I can't vote for them in good conscience and they're bad on immigration (seen through a very particular lens, where the issue is, is it okay that we're spending money on "migrants" instead of helping our own people) and bad on crime (seen through a very particular lens of hey I don't feel safe in my community and I feel like the Democrats aren't doing enough and don't care about that issue), and also Maduro won the election and "they" are trying to steal it from him... that is relevant. That is not derailing. That is relevant to how seriously I want to take this claim that therealnews.com is super concerned about the climate and that is the source of this proposed strategy on how we make the climate better.

Merely being better than Trump was 4 years ago is not going to stop climate change.

100% agreed

This criticism of Biden and Harris needs to be amplified, not sidetracked.

Fuckin what? What needs to happen is government action on climate. If that involves putting pressure on the Democrats then let's rock and roll with that; it sounds great. I realize what I'm putting up sounds somewhat defensive of them, but that is only because this past time around they took the issue almost 10 times more seriously than any other US administration in history and took hugely significant action on it, and that's relevant to this conversation.

If it was "that's not nearly enough, they need to do X Y and Z now and here's how to pressure them to do it" then, like I said, fuckin great. I actually agree with a decent amount of the substantive points in this article. Since the overall thesis is "Kamala Harris is bad on climate change," however, and since the source seems clearly oriented towards defeating positive change instead of creating it, I will and plan to continue to regard it with suspicion.