But they don't like green energy. Why would they ruin as perfectly good fossil fuel that way?
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And then the same people will turn around and look you dead in the eye and say "the left can't even define what a woman is"
We had a ~~good~~ run.
Best of luck to whatever the tardigrades evolve into after a few billion years... if any of them survive the hellscape we're turning our planet into.
Eh.
Surface and shallow water life will suffer, but there's plenty of life beyond that bigger than tardigrades that will supplant us eventually.
Hopefully. But I'm not about to pretend I know where the positive feedback loops we've unleashed will go. Maybe the climate starts to improve a few decades after we're all gone; maybe the greenhouse effect becomes so intense that planet earth becomes molten.
Even extremophiles have their limits - we may well have set Earth on a trajectory that ends in absolute lifelessness. Hopefully not. Probably not. But we've taken the keys to the planet and drove it off a cliff... whether or not anything can be made from the wreckage remains to be seen. But not by us.
It’ll probably be some algae in Pripyat that’s adapted to eat radiation and this planet is actually Krypton just way before anyone starts flying with the power of the sun
Alright, I gotta hand it to them; this is by far one of, if not THE DUMBEST THING I've ever fucking read. It takes SKILL, DEDICATION, AND HARD WORK to be THIS fucking stupid. I'm genuinely impressed at how hard they've worked to divorce themselves from reality, it's truly a marvel of cognitive restructuring. I'd say there's no way they can top this, but we all know that they'll find one in the next month, and it'll make me question my sanity once again. Congratulations.
Bring back Clean Lead!
"Fossil fuels come from the Earth, so they're green"
Every fucking day since 2016 it get's harder and harder to come up with any remotely believable satire. There's just no way of joking about reality, because that would require actually subverting expectations or exceeding norms to absurd levels, and that's actually happening constantly in real life, making it not-fun
Don't worry, the Supreme Court just gave the okay for slashing 1400 education department jobs and reducing funding.
In no time at all, our population will be so dumb that it won't matter what words we use to describe anything!
Came across this theory recently. Seems to provide insight to today.
http://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf
I've been reading Bonhoeffer recently. His work is very much relevant right now, and quite depressing.
by their logic, cyanide is also green and harmless since it comes from plants and is renewable.
sounds like they should show us themselves that it's green
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And so is extinction! Nothing more natural than extinction: pretty much every species ever evolved has gone extinct or is on its way now!
Human ingenuity is a hell of a thing, but it isn't impossible for us too. I don't feet it ir reasonable to put human extinction on the table now, but if we burn all known fossil fuel reserves it is, maybe if we continue on our current trajectory into 2100 it will be.
Our adaptability is off the charts though. Like cockroach levels of crazy. Like crazier, probably, as a species, but just not as individuals.
It's just gonna be a really fucking bad time for the guys in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. I don't think it's gonna satisfy anyone's Fallout fantasies tbh.
All they know how to do is lie and be violent
You just described fascists.
Those donations alone totaled over $20,000.
It always amazes me how cheaply these traitors sell us out.
That's only the public money. Who knows how much dark money they got for it.
Reminds me of when Sam Bankman Freid (FTX Crypto guy) said he was surprised it only cost him lile $50k to buy off a politician or something. And the Oceangate CEO apparently said that if someone complains about the safety of his sub he'll just "buy a senator".
I can't remember where I was reading this but being cheap to purchase is by design.
If politicians were expensive to buy, the public outcry would be significantly higher and would also incur more scrutiny. So there is this balance of bribing a politician vs their voters being upset that their politician taking too much money. Oddly there doesn't seem to be a floor of "our politician can be bought too cheaply."
The other side of this is that until Citizens United is overturned, there is no limit to how much a company can spend on special interest groups. This is where politicians fear the most. If they don't go along with whatever issue, then they have to raise more money to run for re-election, which puts more pressure on them to accept the bribe in the first place.
TL;DR: money in politics is killing our democracy
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Ah yes. Stupidity knows no bounds.
I remember when ohio wasn't like that. I miss the purple state I grew up in
I had to deal with this shit in my environmental studies class in uni. Apparently the forestry industry has been promoting their own brand of propaganda that says burning wood, the most greenhouse-gas-producing fuel on the planet, is environmentally friendly because it is "renewable".
Great, we'll all be dead from global warming but at least in theory the trees that burned down from the wildfires could have reabsorbed that carbon over a couple centuries.
Burning wood is sustainable and if there weren't 8 billion people on the planet that need temperature regulation it would have little impact on the environment. It's always about scale.
Burning wood is green iff the wood was harvested from trees planted for this purpose and all equipment used in the process from planting to harvesting to processing is entirely running on renewable energy.
Seems like it'd be easier to just use solar power and heat pumps for heating
Nah, the particulates emissions and VOCs from burning wood is still very bad at scale. "Green" doesn't really mean anything, I think by definition, since Big Oil was watered it down so much. Similar to the word woke, socialism, etc.
I feel like the bigger issue is all the CO2 emitted from burning literal carbon. Using fossil fuels is just burning trees with extra steps (millennia of burial and compression).
The difference is that the carbon in the wood is in the short carbon cycle while the fossil fuels were sequestered. Carbon wise it doesn't matter if the tree burns or rots (ok rotting does keep some of it in life and soil, but burning leaves some as char).
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And remember, billionaires didn’t get to be billionaires by spending money that they didn’t think would result in more money coming back to them.
So, if the fed government can sue CA, claiming that states cannot impose additional requirements on egg production because of a federal-level definition + the supremacy clause, how can these states reclassify gas as 'green energy', since the grids are inter-state electrically connected, and the Fed has to set the standard for inter-state commerce?
Or perhaps I'm just reaching to far expecting some kind of consistent application of the law. shrugs
consistent application of the law
In the Un-United States of Trashcanistan? Lol.
There is no law, only Trump's will and wealthy interests
This is what you get when you give conservatives power.
Hopefully America remembers that going forward, but probably not.
All this for donations equivalent to the price of a used Toyota Camry? What a cheap suit Landry is.
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There is a whole group of people that really believe that the concept 'perception is reality' is a permission to make up the truth. In other words they believe if they tell a lie enough that it will become reality.
So far, they seem to be right.
Reality always comes crashing down on those who ignore it.
There will be a reckoning. But it'll be far too late and the ones primarily responsible won't be held accountable.
The reckoning will be all of us suffering together, but not equally.
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Corruption this raw unfiltered and cheap makes you wonder how much time needs to get wasted until we outlaw buying politicians again.
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