No it’s a capitalist issue. The biggest problem by far is corporations. Anything distracting from that fact is propaganda as far as I’m concerned.
Now? Now?
I grew up with evangelicals who were enraged at the blasphemous insult that God did not control the Earth absolutely, and therefore the earth couldn’t be getting hotter unless God decided it was time for judgement day, in which case, celebrate, because those jews are finally getting what’s coming to them.
This sounds like mental illness to normal people…
I came here to comment this. It’s always been a culture war, beyond religious views, it’s never been popular with the majority to say that our largest industries and companies are willfully ignoring and hiding the truth about what is in humanity’s best interests in order to achieve growth.
I don’t get this line of reason I ng, cause wasn’t earth given to the humans by God to be the caretakers of the planet? If so, were doing a pretty shitty job of it.
Evangelicals rewrite the Bible in places where convenient.
God didn’t give the earth to humans for caretaking, he gave it to us, and no man can undo what God hath wrought, so even if it is ruined somehow, God will rapture the faithful to a new realm leaving the damned to burn on earth for eternity as the new purgatory/hell.
Its muddled, but the point is it means evangelicals win no matter what, so don’t worry about it.
I grew up with evangelicals who believed it was blasphemous to say the icecaps are melting because God promised to never flood the Earth again lol
good looks at current state of humanity “Well, looks like I changed my mind”
If it’s a culture issue, then let’s frame it as “capitalist culture vs save the planet culture.”
alway has been
Shocking, US in another war
Now? Now as in the last 50+ years?
It wasn’t fully polarized by party until around 2009, when the fossil fuels industry decided to buy off the Repiblicans in response to an attempt to pass cap and trade legislation.
Wait, the republicans? They were the only party that was bought off? Are you sure about that?
They certainly are both in the pockets of corporations. But only one party is fighting a war on reality.
Gonna spam this in 3 different places?
I get the impression most people in US don’t realize how severe the impact of the climate breakdown is going to be for them personally. A river in Colorado that around 40 million people rely on is drying up while California is running out of fresh water as well. Heatwaves resulted in massive crop loss in 2021, in 2022 farmers were killing their own crops and selling cows because of extreme drought , and this year farmers are set to abandon wheat crops at highest rate since 1917.
A paper from 2009 predicted that nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to US crop yields under climate change, and we’re now seeing this unfold in practice. US could easily end up in a dust bowl type scenario in the near future where food production collapses and a famine starts.
Then there are megafires, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events like the recent Texas cold snap. All of this is putting stress on the failing infrastructure and straining supply chains to the breaking point. At some point there could be an internal refugee crisis within US as parts of the country become unlivable.
All of this is happening today, this aren’t things that might happen in the future, these are existing crises that are becoming more severe every year while majority of the population doesn’t understand the larger implications of what’s happening.
If it was just the conservatives who suffered from this I would be 100% “let them die”. Unfortunately the rest of us are stuck dealing with a global problem.
I still kind of think we should treat conservatives as the existential threat they are. Stop acting like it’s “just a different opinion” and start taking action.
While conservatives outright reject that the climate crisis is happening, liberals tend to acknowledge it and simply pay lip service without putting any serious effort into dealing with the problem. US has made no meaningful progress in transitioning off fossil fuels so far, and continues to subsidize and expand fossil fuel projects under the democrats. There is no serious plan that’s being implemented, and projects that do exist often amount to greenwashing.
We can see what a serious plan looks like by looking at China where majority of renewables are now produced and capacity is growing at an accelerating rate each year. China is also leading in nuclear power and building 150 new reactors now.
The US has actually cut its greenhouse gas emissions somewhat:
A few states have a lot of renewables in their electric supply mix. Here’s California right now:
It’s not enough to stabilize temperatures; that means actually getting to zero emissions worldwide, but it’s a start.
It’s important to keep in mind that US has moved out much of its manufacturing hen looking at these charts. To get the full picture we have to look at the global emissions produced when manufacturing goods and services people in US consume.
And then it’s instructive to put the gains US made into perspective of what China managed to do. This is a great overview of the progress just this year alone https://nitter.net/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1680243524124516352
Fossil fuels now account for less than half of China’s power capacity https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-zero-carbon-electricity
China is also doing huge amount of carbon capture via reforestation https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54714692
and it’s now the global leader in renewable energy by a huge margin https://www.csis.org/east-green-chinas-global-leadership-renewable-energy
How is it that China is able to do these things while US cannot?
Basically, China had a bunch of industrial policy around capturing the solar manufacturing, and a willingness to use slave labor to undercut prices in the rest of the world.
It’s worth nothing that trade doesn’t make a huge difference to emissions.
That’s a really dishonest framing of China’s policies given that it’s the one place in the world where wages are actually going up and poverty is being eliminated:
Labor in China is far from being cheapest in the world today, so your whole narrative here is based on a false premise.
What China had the willingness to do was to create a concrete plan to move off fossil fuels and then commit to implementing it long term.
Meanwhile, the relative difference is pretty significant:
For example, the USA has a value of 7.7% meaning its net import of CO2 is equivalent to 7.7% of its domestic emissions. This means emissions calculated on the basis of ‘consumption’ are 7.7% higher than their emissions based on production.
For example, China’s value of -14% means its net export of CO2 is equivalent to 14% of its domestic emissions. The consumption-based emissions of China are 14% lower than their production-based emissions.
And then we have to look at this in the context of per capita emissions which is even worse https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states?country=USA~CHN
The key part in all this is that China is transitioning off fossil fuels while US keeps talking about it, while having done little tangible work in this regard.
They’re specifically using forced labor from Uyghurs for solar manufacturing. It’s a problem, and one that’s complicating the ability of China to export solar panels.
The New York times exist to put a blue face on the failure of Capitalism. If you think the solution to climate change exist within our political parties, or via voting, the problem is you.
Also Citing Paul Krugman, the manifestation of neo-liberal talking points, and the failure of third-way politics reflects really badly on you OP.
Wow, Paul Krugman is still employed? Terrific. Hmm, let’s see. The Climate change agenda is an “issue” because it reeks badly of ulterior motives. Like, control the 'little people" and burden them with obnoxious regulations, rules and whatever else while the wealthy just go on doing as they please. As soon as this gets brought up, the celebs and politicians scatter like ants being sprayed with raid. They fly around in jets, we can’t fly or have to fly like 5th class. No gas powered cars for us but they can have Ferrari collections. We have to live in stacked, crappy apartments while they party it up in their gated mansions. Sorry, not happening. As soon as they hand it all over in the name of climate we can talk. Mm Kay? Good.
Trust the science. Sure, Jan. Why not parade Fauci out there again? LOL.
This reads like an AI generated post trained on everyone’s terrible uncles.
🤔 I wonder how many Lemmy accounts actually are just AI-generated bots?
