Don’t worry. Some private company will come in and sell you something to fix it. I mean, it won’t and it will be a total scam. But they will sell it to you. And gosh darn it, you will buy it.
That’s the point, their a christofascist group that wants to create the apocalypse to get Jesus to return
It looks like America is self-destructing. I’m not sure that’s a bad thing for the planet in the long run. But sure, it’ll cause a real mess going down.
And of course it is tragic. But somehow I’m less worried about the climate change aspect of all this - at least on a planetary scale - compared to how worried I normally am about climate change.
This is how empires die. Power and wealth accumulates at the top, until eventually a tipping point is reached, and those with power then use it to frantically loot the rest of the nation and skedaddle to foreign lands with their ill-gotten wealth as the empire balkanizes behind them.
In truth, the looting phase started with Reagan, but in recent times it’s begun to accelerate, particularly when Trump is in office.
halting the Environmental Protection Agency’s progress on dealing with and researching PFAS
Not directly global warming related, but especially sad. PFAS is a global polluter as it gets into the rain cycle. Freshwater fish everywhere are unsafe to eat.
I’m angry at the baseless ignorance of putting a GDP cost to global warming. It is a wealth and quality of life cost, but spending can be just as high or higher. The US is at especially high risk of collapse with low housing build rate, and vehicle inflation from tariffs. Insurance inflation must necessarily significantly reduce quality of life and property values as disaster risk and agricultural yields are impacted. Property devaluations is bank failure risk.
Relying on US was always a poor plan, as it is most politically corrupt nation on earth. Far bigger than US climate policy, however is ending war in Ukraine. Immediate 3% drop in global diesel use, and lower oil prices that mean less lobbying for climate terrorism, and drilling expansions. Rest of world is more important than US for emissions, and decoupling from its oil extortion attempts is a likely reaction to US belligerence to former allies.
It already was
