• blazera@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hundreds of billions towards highways is certainly an action on climate

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      Not every action has been in the right direction, but on balance, the bulk have been.

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          Yes, a lot of money is spent on things like repairing highways. “Just don’t maintain the bridge” isn’t a good move.

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            Its poison for any effort to curb climate change. The concrete production alone is a major source of greenhouse gases, and its being done to further prioritize the single largest source of emissions in the US, personal vehicles. I cant think of a more effective thing to spend money on if the goal is to accelerate climate change.

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                This shit is like clean coal. Its not a thing, concrete production involves releasing the co2 from calcium carbonate, not even mentioning the heating and fuel requirements that go into that process. These highways are going to be built with conventional concrete.

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                  The problem hasn’t been “you can’t do it” but “architects and engineers don’t have enough experience with it to trust it, so they don’t use it” — a federal government purchasing program can fix that.

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                    You literally cant do it, its a chemical reaction that outputs co2. In the same way you cant run a combustion engine without producing co2.

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            They always say the same thing, some declaration of passing the greatest most stupendous climate legislation of all time. The climate legislation that sold millions of acres of federal land for oil and gas extraction.

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              Dudes pushed more progression than obama and done it with a hostile senate. Get your head out of your arse and try looking at reality.

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                The reality is that bill mandated the sale of a lot of federal land specifically for oil and gas extraction, and that US oil production continues to increase with no peak in sight.

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                You gotta try even harder to say it in a dumb sounding way for it to work

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                  Nah it summarizes everything quite well. No matter what’s done, all you say is Biden bad.