The benefit mostly accrues to the people using the electricity solar and wind generate. If you're making decisions for a society, instead of on behalf of rentiers who can donate, there are strong reasons to choose it.
If they actually worked, it would be payment to somebody who has taken an action to prevent emissions they otherwise would not have prevented. In practice, it's 90% middlemen who claim to have paid somebody to take such an action, but no such action actually occurred, or a completely ineffective action occurred.
Part of that might be a result of much of the population not being tuned in to factual media. The right-wing outlets do a cover-for-30-seconds approach to any bad thing Trump does.
Probably Putin, who vetoed any suggestion of other locations.
This one has a link to https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/08/climate-breakdown-will-hit-global-growth-by-a-third-say-central-banks
Maybe a client issue on your end?
Or are you subscribing via mastodon instead of lemmy?
He's angling for it, but I'm far from clear that he'd win a competitive Democratic primary.
That was always the Rolling Stone business model — talk about the bands, and throw in a side of serious political news.
I wouldn't say that the movement towards state action weakened under Biden; we got some great examples of it, such as the requirement for renewables in Minnesota.
Sorry, but accelerationism only gets us a lasting fascism. It doesn't get us the kid of stable world where people can substitute wind and solar for fossil fuels
They do...and they appear to have just started reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as their wind and solar buildout is happening fast enough to displace fossil fuel use. They're also the main exporter of those technologies, so a push for decarbonization will both cut their own emissions and those of the rest of the world.
It's a real indictment of the American Republicans that they chose to fight renewables every step of the way — the US could have been in an incredibly strong leadership position had they chosen to support them instead.