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.
Good, they should know what we think of their inaction. The climate is breaking down. We can't afford to sit here and do nothing.
Their approach is likely to have a fairly limited impact; you can push a reluctant ally this way, but they're not going to shift the Republicans because they're paid off. Actually getting more legislation is going to mean getting more and better Democrats elected in November. That means looking at close house and senate races, as well as making sure that Biden gets re-elected, and ensuring that state-level judiciary is in place to end gerrymanders in Republican-leaning areas.
It won't have an impact on the 2024 elections, but it could on later ones. The group is basically saying it's good to be mad at people killing the planet.
But yes, I do agree the best shot we have is not giving the knife to people who want to murder earth.
You seems to be knowledgeable, so I was wondering, are democrat states gerrymandered as well? If so, are they as bad as the republican states?
I get that a newly elected democrat in a republican state would inherit the gerrymandered county/state, but I am talking more about traditionally democrat states vs republican states.
Thanks
A number of the biggest Democratic-leaning states, including California, have processes for independent redistricting which reasonably effectively prevent partisan gerrymanders.
Democratic-leaning states without such rules do gerrymanders; you don't dare engage in unilateral disarmament because that means giving the other party a permanent lock on power.
Thanks for the clarification, super educational.
The oil barons are saying it’s time to move away from fossil fuels. The iron is hot, it’s time to strike. In every sense of the word.
Fighting usually involves actual fighting.