• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Donald subverting democracy would be a much more immediate threat and make climate change almost impossible to deal with. One has to be avoided to deal with the other and is thus the higher priority.

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        11 months ago

        No matter who wins, the US will pump and burn more oil than the year before. It’s far too late for lesser of two evils politics, my friend.

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          11 months ago

          the US will pump and burn more oil than the year before.

          Possibly. But, the US will also be on a course to lower emissions in the long term.

          The Inflation Reduction Act was the most significant piece of climate change legislation in American history. If that goes uninterrupted, so many new battery, solar and other green projects will continue. It’s imperfect but we have a chance (not a guarantee) with the Democrats and none with trump.

          And frankly, in North America, most of climate change for the foreseeable future is more inconvenience than it is “societal collapse.”