MrMakabar

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Easy ban sale of fossil fuel based heating systems.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

So basically they are betting that Trump wins the election and hurts the energy transition, war in the Middle East hits the oil supply, which increases oil prices, EV factory production being too high, due to overinvestment and well solar being a problem in trade wars.

Trump might be solved in a month, the Middle East situation is temporary and a war would accelerate the energy transition as well helping EV manufcaturers thanks to high oil prices or well oil prices fall, which hurts the oil industries profit margin, but is great for the climate. Solar being mostly Chinese is a real problem though.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

There are some. Plaid Cymru has net zero until 2035 in the manifesto for example. The Finnish Greens even go for carbon neutral by 2030. There are probably more, which in effect would end up in a similar situation. After all the current EU emission target would be a 41% reduction by 2030(55% reduction by 2030) compared to 2022.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

This current one is very much including countries outside of the US and Green Parties have been and actually are in government in a number of countries. Also those parties are mostly not Russia friendly at all.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That is pretty much the agenda of every Green party anywhere. With the last point usually taking a decade or so, but still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (7 children)

What would make a "bold climate agenda"?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is an easy fix for that: Blaim the rich

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They are planning to buy or maybe just electricity from a new reactor type, which has never been built, starting 2030, when conventional nuclear power plants, with known technology take twice as long to built.

So if they stop the project in 18months, it has just been a waste of money.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Fossil fuel has actually pretty high fixed production costs. The best example was Texan oil going negative during covid. So with a fast deployment of renewables replacing fossil fuels, we will see periods of fossil fuels being cheap, as renewables replaced enough of them to see oversupply. However low prices also force production to be cut, partly by companies going bankrupt. Once enough has been cut prices are going up again.

Right now we see a number of OPEC+ countries breaking production limits. Namely Russia, Iraq and Kazakhstan. The Saudis see Iran heading towards a war with Israel and the Saudis want to hurt Iran. So the Saudis threaten increased oil production to hurt Iran's economy. That would also hurt fracking producers in the US, which would also benefit the Saudis.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

You can however Switch to some open source software without having to go full Linux. Introducing Libre Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and so forth can be done in Windows. Software Not working one Linux is often a big problem for switching.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Anybody who claims to be as far left as they come, tends to be not very fed up on USA propaganda. They also do not tend to be Russian stock puppets.

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