• @pyre
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    2 months ago

    it’s insane that so many flyover states are competing (and winning) against fucking California

    edit: by winning, i meant having more carbon emissions, not doing better. dumb wording.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      People underestimate just how massive California is. There are a lot of people across a large span of land that require electricity. I imagine the map would look very different if it was scaled by population.

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        22 months ago

        my wording has failed me immensely. i would at least expect people to look at the map and realize what I’m actually trying to say but here we are. that is my point. California has like the population of all these states combined yet all of them are producing more carbon emissions. when i said “winning” i meant in amount of carbon emissions, meaning doing worse.

    • @whoreticulture
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      32 months ago

      Are we looking at the same map? Looks like California is far less emissions heavy than the flyover states. High proportions of solar panel energy, too.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      22 months ago

      California has huge tracts of land that get sunshine like 365 days per year.

      • @pyre
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        22 months ago

        so Nevada doesn’t get much sunshine?

    • TunaCowboy
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      12 months ago

      Makes sense when you realize 12% of Americans live in CA, vs somewhere like WY where 0.17% of Americans live.

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        2 months ago

        what i meant was there producing more carbon emissions. you would expect more populous areas to produce more carbon emissions