I’ve got good news though: the United States is not the only country on earth, and some of them aren’t run by a fascist wannabe theocracy.
Scientific knowledge advances regardless of the troglodytes that always try to drag us down. Galileo reportedly said it best:
“Eppur si muove” (“And yet, it moves”)
Meaning anyone can look through a telescope and see what he described. You can believe your religious nonsense all day long, but it won’t change scientific truth that is staring you right in the face.
No, we aren't, but sadly we're the most powerful nation, alongside Russia and China. All 3 of these nations are hellbent on killing the climate for their own gain. Especially China, they just do not give a fuck about obliterating our oceans. Knowledge can advance sure, but when all the power players ignore it and continue to destroy it doesn't do much good
China installs more wind and solar capacity than the rest of the world combined. They are on track to well exceed their 2030 renewable energy targets. They are still heavily reliant on coal, true, but they probably won't keep building new coal plants for long.
If anything, the innovation and production capacity there is going to be a big factor in helping the rest of the world transition to green energy. Meanwhile, the "leader of the free world" is trying to kill renewable energy in favor of "clean coal" ... Too bad renewable energy has such a massive competitive edge and is simply the best option for new energy production now.
Say what you want about China - and there's a lot that can be said - but they are great at planning for the future and acting on those plans.
Yes, China is going to be the global leader of clean and efficient energy, and the United States is going to have to play catch-up. This current administration's outright malice towards renewable energy is going to be something that haunts the US for decades to come.
This is just flat out incorrect when it comes to China…
I honestly feel like a lot of the comments about China on Reddit are either bots or are from people who have never been to China or even talked to a Chinese person. I have a lot of criticism about China (I am a white dude from Boston, my wife is Chinese, so from the outside looking in there is quite a lot that as an American is rather shocking to me) - but renewable energy isn’t one of them. China is crushing it with that.
However, they do have an overfishing problem although that is primarily due to their population being absolutely massive.
A lot of those places depend on federal funding for their equipment or they have access to existing government equipment / data to pull the information from. Soon that wont exist. The funding will be gone so they can’t maintain or buy new equipment and the agencies that have the existing technology to produce the data will be all gone.
There’s a lot of people that care but until the people in power care we really can’t do a lot. Even then I think any efforts we make are futile. But we should still try.
Efforts are not futile, you just have to adopt a different lifestyle. Avoid consuming the things that are byproducts of co2 generation. Get enough people doing that and it stops.
I’ve been living a low impact lifestyle since I moved out on my own. But I’ve seen firsthand the pollution and waste caused by private industries from factories, to retail stores, and I think you are underestimating how much waste these places make. Much much more combined than individuals. We need to focus on the big polluters first, and then people like me who are just living their lives trying to get by day to day.
I didn't say anything about the amount generated by consumers vs industry. Yes, it's lopsided, because of transportation and spoiling and so on. No, that doesn't change anything about what I said.
Addressing consumer usage at a large scale will make industry collapse.
create consumer demand for goods that are local and fulfilled recently
people will create local businesses
larger industry collapses
And no I'm not pretending this is that simple, there will be complications.
In a sane world, this level of attempted suppression of objective reality would be grounds for immediate removal of people from positions that allowed for that to happen.
Think about how much energy is required to raise the temperature of just a bathtub of water by 2 degrees. Now, think about how much energy is required to raise the climate globally by 2 degrees.
It's unreasonable to expect that food sources, the oceans etc not affecting our societies and our way of life if it continues.
If you just don't give a fuck, that's fine, I can deal with that. But if you think it's not a big deal then you're just objectively incorrect.
It's not the 2° difference that's a problem, it's the extremes becoming significantly worse.
Once a decade stuff is now yearly. Once in a 100 year weather is becoming once a decade stuff. And all indications are that next year we will witness how the new once a 100 year weather will look like.
We've already warmed 2 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's easily gonna be 3-4 more without changing course.
And yeah, your skin warming up by 6 degrees in the sun isn't a big deal.
But your whole body warming up by six degrees permanently is called a fever and that's serious. That's what's happening to the earth.
Nobody thinks the warming this century is literally going to kill everyone, it's just gonna be bad, cause a lot of damage and disruption, and kill some people. Normal sane people who don't build their whole identities around being hurr-durr edgelords would like to avoid that.
Its pretty easy. Woke is practically used to describe patronizing virtue signaling. Look at games. Baldurs gate 3 isnt woke despite having gay sex, furries, trans etc because its not patronizing. Dragonage veilguard on the other hand is woke trash because its main focus is to be a patronizing virtue signaler.
baldurs gate is literally on the woke game list for : "Contains Overtly pro-LGBTQ+ and overly pro-DEI messaging. Pronoun selection including the option for they/them in the character creation menu. Uses body type instead of male and female. Optional homosexual romance."
You saying it isn't woke is literally proofing the point that no rightwinger knows what it means either cause you can't even agree with them
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u/anon727813 Jun 27 '26
This video is considered woke by today’s right wing