I agree more needs done. I just don’t like when it’s portrayed as from a lack of trying or caring. There is just a lot of psychotic billionaires out there pushing against change who don’t care what happens as long as their power is intact. We are becoming so close to an oligarchy due to all the dark money pushing against change. I’ve seen the entire way issues are discussed shift drastically extreme right in my life time and if you read books like “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer, you know that came from billionaire foundations. Biden has done more than Obama or Clinton for many progressive causes and it’s so overlooked. No one person in our government can do it with our system but if we tear down the few trying because they couldn’t just make it happen immediately in a complex power structure we are only shooting ourselves in the foot in my opinion.
Where in my original comment am I “tearing down” Biden or anyone else? I was addressing the premise of the article, which is “few have heard about Biden’s climate policies, even those who care most about issue.” My point is that if enough were being done to address the climate crisis, everyone would have heard about it because it would be impactful and revolutionary enough to be impossible to not know about. There is no subtle or incremental way to divert us from our current trajectory toward disaster.
Okay but my original point still stands: he’s not doing enough (whether it’s because he doesn’t care to or because he literally can’t).
I agree more needs done. I just don’t like when it’s portrayed as from a lack of trying or caring. There is just a lot of psychotic billionaires out there pushing against change who don’t care what happens as long as their power is intact. We are becoming so close to an oligarchy due to all the dark money pushing against change. I’ve seen the entire way issues are discussed shift drastically extreme right in my life time and if you read books like “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer, you know that came from billionaire foundations. Biden has done more than Obama or Clinton for many progressive causes and it’s so overlooked. No one person in our government can do it with our system but if we tear down the few trying because they couldn’t just make it happen immediately in a complex power structure we are only shooting ourselves in the foot in my opinion.
Where in my original comment am I “tearing down” Biden or anyone else? I was addressing the premise of the article, which is “few have heard about Biden’s climate policies, even those who care most about issue.” My point is that if enough were being done to address the climate crisis, everyone would have heard about it because it would be impactful and revolutionary enough to be impossible to not know about. There is no subtle or incremental way to divert us from our current trajectory toward disaster.