It’s just going to keep getting better, faster. We have everything in place.
Just need to keep pushing forward and keep demanding more.
There’s a lot to be positive about here, but use that hope to keep making things better, and not to be satisfied.
The Inflation Reduction Act and the halo of policies the Biden administration has put in around it are massive force multipliers on the issue, too. They’re pushing the natural progression towards cheaper, cleaner, better renewable technology to be moving screaming fast.
Hate Biden if you want, but his administration is absolutely nailing it on climate and is somehow managing to do so in spite of a hostile Senate.
100%, he delivered on that campaign promise. You can see the direct result in climate investment following the passage of these acts. In addition to protecting millions of acres of public land and strengthening existing regulations. I always find it disingenuous when people say both parties are the same, because one is actually trying to address climate change while the other is accelerating it.
“But why isn’t he using the office to directly attack projects”
Meanwhile EOs blocking the LA LNG export facilities and all that shit.
“But the offshore permitting reform concession he made for Manchin”
That’s Manchin’s fault, not his, it was needed to pass the bill. But on top of that, nearly every policy wonk will beat the drum all day and every day that this exact kind of major permitting reform is necessary to make wind work, and that this kind of permitting likely benefits wind better than drilling especially considering that the drilling products are rapidly becoming uncompetitive compared to renewables (even ignoring the political difference between them).
“OK, yeah, he’s done a lot, but it isn’t enough!”
Yeah, so says his own platform. His own cabinet. His own DOE. But the IRA also has a plan here; it builds HUGE constituencies in the renewable sector who will in the future offer political capital to further reforms.
I’m so tired of the “leftist” bothsiders that have largely taken over spaces like these with their negativity, despair, and uselessness.
no no no. its not good enough, fast enough. so lets all give up and let the worst actors take over so that we can punish the ones not doing a good enough job. that will show them.
Those are rookie numbers, we need to pump those numbers up!
Down?
IDK, we need to do better though.
Yeah, we need to be cutting emissions by something like 6% of current yearly emissions each year.
Does it include the co2 emissions embedded in trade ?
