Lol.
We just voted against addressing climate change and, in fact, for making it worse.
Humans are going to destroy this planet. That is indisputable. The only question is if we'll have the means to leave for another one before it's too late.
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To go where? If we can fix another planet, we can fix our own. If we can reach another planet, probably we could fix our planet. But we cant, because of money.
If we can fix another planet, we can fix our own.
Who said we're fixing another planet? If we're lucky, we'll be able to move to another one and destroy that one, then move on from there.
probably we could fix our planet. But we cant, because of money.
It's not just money. We are inherently destructive. Our "big" brains make it so we can never be 100% compatible with our natural world the way animals are. We will ALWAYS produce waste. Right now the amount of waste we produce is obscene and entirely unstustainable. The best you can hope for is a future where education and technology allow us to produce far less waste. But we will always produce waste. We will never achieve 100% recycling capabilities. We will absolutely either destroy this planet via pollution or by using up all its available resources. We've made countless species go extinct and are continuing to do so. We are a virus on the face of the universe.
Our destiny is to either migrate (spread) to other planets or go extinct. That is the curse of sentience.
History is watching you fly a military escort to the amazon and back for a photo op you dip
Not for nothing, but waiting until the waning days and weeks of your presidency to take a trip to the Amazon and say this feels a little ... lackluster.
And exactly the kind of thing people are grilling the Democrats for after the election. Biden should have been saying this in his first year, not the 11th hour.
Exactly. Maybe someone could have mentioned this during election season if it was so important?
Will miss you Biden. I saw the policies youve tried and how hard you were filibusted on climate policies.
It was watching you for the last 4 years, Joe.
He did a lot. The IRA law got a ton of green investments and enterprises going, including attracting businesses from across the globe. But that's all gone now with Trump.
Yup.
Americans are too lazy and dumb to pay attention. The majority thought Biden sucked and didn't accomplish anything. Couldn't be further from the truth.
We're a society of irresponsible voters and the decline we're about to experience is no one's fault but our own.
Yet another handout to car dependency grifters. Nothing green about that.
You don't have to carry water for him anymore. He's not running.
Biden bragged about record oil production. Bragged.
Wasn't this the administration bragging about approving a record number of fracking permits?
Because we are at war with Russia and Iran and they won't sell us oil and we still need oil for society to function
The US is a net exporter of oil and the country that we import most of our oil from is Canada: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
Iran has been a constant for decades, so that isn't a factor. While Russia has been sanctioned, their oil is still being bought up at a steep discount by India and China, so those countries' demand for oil from other sources are reduced and the impact to the oil markets are likely insignificant overall.
Yeah we're a net exporter after all the new contracts from the Biden admin
The process from approval to actual drilling and extraction takes longer than that. Also, we've been a net exporter for longer than biden has been in office.
This was so important to me that I decided to only do it a month before I'm leaving.
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History will not judge him kindly. He oversaw a hiatus on his country's march to fascism but ultimately chose upholding the status quo over real change that would actually have stopped it
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Oh NOW history is watching! Hasn’t been watching for the last 4 years at all it seems but I guess history took a little break.
They're watching us do nothing when the planet burns. Wonder what they think of us, probably something like this
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