It’s not normal that children growing up in Detroit and across the United States today will hold summer memories of wildfire smoke, heat alerts and flooded streets. It’s not normal for …
What Biden has not done: stop issuing drilling permits or impose export restrictions on fossil fuels. The former has some serious limits because of how the courts treat the right to drill as a property right once you hold a drilling lease, and the latter is simply untested.
Age here isn’t the issue; it’s that we the US government is designed to spread power across multiple people and parts of government, and having a President who is willing to do the right thing isn’t enough.
@silence7 Did I mention Biden? Age is absolutely the issue here. All these geezers won’t be here much longer, so they don’t actually give a shit about the environment or climate change. What does inflation matter in 50 years when there’s no drinking water or food?
What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants, as well as phase out warming-inducing refrigerants.
What Biden has not done: stop issuing drilling permits or impose export restrictions on fossil fuels. The former has some serious limits because of how the courts treat the right to drill as a property right once you hold a drilling lease, and the latter is simply untested.
Age here isn’t the issue; it’s that we the US government is designed to spread power across multiple people and parts of government, and having a President who is willing to do the right thing isn’t enough.
@silence7 Did I mention Biden? Age is absolutely the issue here. All these geezers won’t be here much longer, so they don’t actually give a shit about the environment or climate change. What does inflation matter in 50 years when there’s no drinking water or food?
There are people who work to be good ancestors. I’m happy if somebody who behaves like that holds lower, no matter their age