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Um, I think we all just won | Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth
(billmckibben.substack.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
"Delaying"
Yeah, we've had more fossil fuel drilling this administration than literally any other administration including trump's shit show
There's pushback on this, so the DOE is going to "look at" the effect on climate change before approving even more.
They'll wait a couple months than say it's totally fine to do this too.
Probably still start before the general election though.
And subjecting it to a test based on the damage done by its emissions. Realistically, that means we can stop it from being built.
Yeah who the fuck thinks this counts as "we all just won"?