silence7

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So much for people who didn't believe the warnings that Trump is a fascist who admires Hitler.

 

This is quite surely about some combination of greenwashing and desire to have a seat at the table to interfere with negotiations, rather than any kind of sincere desire to go along with decarbonization.

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[–] silence7 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem is that the things he can do without congressional support can be easily overturned by the next President — and the Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives.

[–] silence7 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The paper makes it clear that it can — and it's actually important to avoid doing things like random murder. But the kind of nonviolent acts we've seen so far aren't a problem.

They also had a null result on policy support; the main impact was activating people towards more moderate activist groups.

[–] silence7 6 points 1 month ago

I don't expect commercial extraction to be limited to one area.

[–] silence7 4 points 1 month ago

In practice, I see people in your situation spend their additional budget on insulation and an air-source heat pump, rather than go to geothermal.

[–] silence7 15 points 1 month ago

I'm not waiting — spent the weekend in a swing state talking to voters. You can too.

[–] silence7 4 points 1 month ago
  1. You wouldn't want to actually use nuclear weapons
  2. You'd need to actually maintain technical geoengineering for hundreds of thousands of years, eg: for something as long as time time period that modern humans have existed.
[–] silence7 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Starting a nuclear war is still likely far worse than even status quo.

[–] silence7 3 points 1 month ago

If you've got 100 amp service, as is typical for US homes, it's in theory possible to do things like set up your EV charger to pause when the dryer or oven is running, and end up without the need for a new breaker box.

[–] silence7 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sure, but the most of the ideas people would be happy about involve keeping the bulk of the human population alive, along with the rest of the ecosystem.

[–] silence7 2 points 1 month ago

To be fair to her, I don't think her views have actually constituted the limiting factor on US action — that would have been what could pass through the Senate, where we needed the vote of a literal coal baron to get even budget reconciliation passed (that takes only 50 votes + the VP, anything else requires 60 votes)

[–] silence7 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and he claimed to have covered it up so that it wouldn't be in his military records. So now they've got witnesses to both time periods, one saying he wasn't shot while in the military, and the other saying that they heard him admit to shooting himself.

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