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MrMakabar
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If you want to break the system, you have to built an organization strong enough to do that. Right now that just does not exist in the US. However Biden does some good work and even more importantly he is much less likely to actually fight the build up of such an organization. So in a swing state he is worth voting for. However in none swing states that is a different matter. There voting for say the Green Party is an option.
One thing is also extremely important. Climate change does not have a single tipping point. Reducing emissions is always a good idea, even if the policy is too slow. It does hurt the fossil fuel industry, which makes it easier to fight them. It also reduces the harm.
However this idea of everything but a revolution is not worth doing is just plain and simply ignorant of history. Revolutions do not create something new, the change the balance of power. So you need the bones of the next system to be ready and the strength to have a revolution. Both of those are much much much easier to do under Biden.
uBlockorigin is the way to go.
That would be great news for Germany to have Volkswagen destroyed.
That is why you overbuilt solar and wind and also add storage. Wind and solar can easily be shut down, so that is an option or the electiricty can be used for making heat and storing that, charge up EVs or something similar. So doubling the average needed solar + wind and having enough storage to balance out a day is enough. Also things like biomass and even more importantly conventional hydro storage are good options. Norway for example has 86TWh of hydro storage alone today.
When you look at a large grid such as the EUs, you will find that wind + solar has no days without any electricity production and that worse case is at more then half of average electricity production of these sources.
As soon as you go weekly it becomes even more stable:
We also already have a lot of hydro storage in form of reservoirs. Those are built already and can vary their output. It is more of a matter of changing how we use those.
A solar farm in Switzerland from 1982 is also still providing power at 80% of original spec. Even today solar companies give 25 year warranty on new panels.
So this is not really an advantage of nuclear. In fact after 50 years a lot of them become a lot less reliable. We recently saw that in France.
A lot of industries use electricity. They want cheaper prices.
Uni Credit made 6.4billion profit from 20.3billion revenue in 2022. So we are talking 15% of profits.
The problem with that is that a lot of green technology is of a big investment in the beginning, but cheaper to operate type. So once you have them, it is hard for fossil fuels to compete. We also do not have low fossil fuel prices right now. Both oil and gas are rather expensive and coal can not compete with gas in most places. More so green technologies also have a lobby. So you have the fossil fuel industry in decline, which means less money for lobbying. The laws and systems to replace them are in working already. The simple truth is that passing laws is much harder then to prevent a law from being passed. Obviously the fossil fuel industry has already failed to do the later in many places.
This is one of the reasons we currently see a lot of far right groups poping up everywhere. Fossil fuel has to rewrite the laws. Centrists do not want to do anything and leftists are for the most part for more anti fossil fuel laws. So the far right is their only hope to grow the fossil fuel industry.
XR is widely hated, but it is extremely successful in making people talk about the climate crisis. Actions such as blocking oil refineries, coal power plants and so forth certainly work and cause massive damage to large emitters. The problem is that the media does not report on it, so when you want to recruit, you do so by blocking streets.
The simple truth is that you need both. Large scale mobilization and some more radical action. It is very clear that large scale protests have not worked as well as needed.
Just one thing I believe to be really important in selling it:
less consumption -> less production -> less work
That means degrowth is earlier pensions, shorter work weeks, more vacation time and so forth. For many people chilling on the beach is saving the planet.