Sure. Still means that a ton of Americans were trying to figure out what it meant the day after the election. Which is a day later than they needed to.
As others have mentioned, this doesn’t actually change much. Something near 90% of Chinese emissions are to support Chinese consumption
They do…and they appear to have just started reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as their wind and solar buildout is happening fast enough to displace fossil fuel use. They’re also the main exporter of those technologies, so a push for decarbonization will both cut their own emissions and those of the rest of the world.
It’s a real indictment of the American Republicans that they chose to fight renewables every step of the way — the US could have been in an incredibly strong leadership position had they chosen to support them instead.
The benefit mostly accrues to the people using the electricity solar and wind generate. If you’re making decisions for a society, instead of on behalf of rentiers who can donate, there are strong reasons to choose it.
If they actually worked, it would be payment to somebody who has taken an action to prevent emissions they otherwise would not have prevented. In practice, it’s 90% middlemen who claim to have paid somebody to take such an action, but no such action actually occurred, or a completely ineffective action occurred.
Part of that might be a result of much of the population not being tuned in to factual media. The right-wing outlets do a cover-for-30-seconds approach to any bad thing Trump does.
This one has a link to https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/08/climate-breakdown-will-hit-global-growth-by-a-third-say-central-banks
Maybe a client issue on your end?
Or are you subscribing via mastodon instead of lemmy?
We lost the election, but Biden was pretty demonstrably a lot better.
He’s angling for it, but I’m far from clear that he’d win a competitive Democratic primary.
That was always the Rolling Stone business model — talk about the bands, and throw in a side of serious political news.
I wouldn’t say that the movement towards state action weakened under Biden; we got some great examples of it, such as the requirement for renewables in Minnesota.
Sorry, but accelerationism only gets us a lasting fascism. It doesn’t get us the kid of stable world where people can substitute wind and solar for fossil fuels
Probably six months before we see big auctions again.
They covered Project 2025 before the election, including the ties Trump’s circle has to it.
This is generally not a great way to do it, since the emissions largely coming from fossil fuel burning. Fewer people doesn’t help much if we burn even more.
In practice, those rules made it easier to have centrist primary challenges to Democrats in congress, rather than left-wing ones.
The big thing we need to change is the media environment. Much of the US is a news desert, so people are depending on things like YouTube shorts and Xitter for their news.
They’ve been making it clear for a while.
The problem isn’t the NYT here; it’s that very few Americans read the NYT.
They were talking about it before the election. I even posted a link, but people didn’t care as much.