The current administration has approved more than 2,000 new fracking permits.
I'm so glad the US has rejoined the Paris Agreement.
"Meet the new boss Same as the old boss"
I'm so glad the US has rejoined the Paris Agreement.
"Meet the new boss Same as the old boss"
The kind of reasoning you're using rings hollow when you actually look closer at what's going on politically:
https://www.slowboring.com/p/climate-left
> $16 billion for capping orphaned wells and cleaning up abandoned mines.
> $47.2 billion for climate resiliency projects.
> $48.5 billion for public transit.
> $66 billion for freight and passenger rail.
> $15 billion for EV charging stations and electric buses.
> $73 billion for upgrading the electricity grid.
EDIT: updated the linked article. I originally linked to an opinion piece rather than a news piece.
[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-urges-opec-to-boost...
old link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-wants-opec-to-drill-o...
Maybe the EU will one day get it's agenda together, and apply crippling tariffs to all goods and services imported from countries that don't have carbon taxes.
The CO2 emissions output has been coming down since the high in 2006. With the old boss and the new boss.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...
If anything, fracking helped the environment, since it offset resources being mined by the traditional, more wasteful methods.
Arguably the most powerful tool the POTUS has is words. So they are not unimportant.
True, but since we are talking the old boss vs new boss... Neither can exactly tell China or Europe to stop increasing their CO2 output.
Denial is not the same as acceptance. Saying that it doesn't matter if the president is a climate denier or not is pretty far out there - I haven't heard this take before.
Is it okay for the president to spread messages of pro-genocide and hatred? That doesn't matter right? The president's words literally don't matter, so whatever, he can go on about yelling that he's gonna nuke someone, doesn't matter. "Words [of leaders] don't matter" is a terrible take.
I think it's ridiculous to say Biden and Trump are the same on climate. Biden is pushing through a bunch of climate stuff on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and hopefully will get even more in the reconciliation bill.
Words _do_ matter, because the threat of serious climate legislation makes companies shift in a direction where said legislation won't completely destroy them. Read this piece to see more: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/climate-...
Deleting this sentence from your comment really improves not only your argument, but the tone of discussion. It just makes things needlessly adversarial to lead with fighting words, and for sure it triggers defensive mental antibodies before you've even started.
That's not fair. When you're the chief of a fire station, saying "Yep that's a blazing fire right there, let's do something" is not virtual signaling, it's called not being a fucking idiot.
Maybe fracking helped reduce emissions for now, but it remains to be seen whether it helped the environment. It could take decades to learn about all the negative impacts it has.
Most fears about fracking are either myths or overblown.
Fracking has allowed the extraction of more natural gas; and natural has is the main reason that the US was able to reduce its emissions the past decade because it has a higher Joules/CO2 ratio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTA-M12vrT4
> I'm so glad the US has rejoined the Paris Agreement.
Any climate accords not involving the major C02 producers, especially China and India who produces more C02 than all of the rest of the developed world combined, will only outsource the problem to those countries with very poor to non-existent environmental regulations while we sabotage our economies my making them noncompetitive in the mean time.