- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
To be clear: there’s a night-and-day difference between Biden and Trump, with the former having actually taking significant action, and being likely to take more if reelected. Trump will look to maximize both extraction and consumption of fossil fuels in a way that Biden simply didn’t and won’t.
No one government can do enough. He’s shifted the emissions trajectory of the US in a meaningful way. That’s enough to earn my vote when the alternative is so much worse
That’s simply not true. Biden doesn’t give a shit. He’ll be dead before the climate apocalypse occurs, and everyone he works with is paid by big oil to not go “too far” with environmental regulations. Sure he makes it look like he’s making a difference, but the fossil fuel lobby has thus far been succesful in preventing any major countries from taking significant action on climate change.
Don’t believe me? Here’s how world governments are doing at regulating climate change:
You really think Biden, who is fundamentally the same ideology as all previous Democrat presidents, is going to do anything different? It’s worth noting Biden was present at the Paris agreement and pushed for weaker language in the agreement to weasel out of the US needing to take any significant action.
To be clear, I think obviously people should vote for him given the alternative. But only because America is a profoundly broken country and that senile old coot is the best option available. I’m just deeply suspect of anyone who says that Biden is actually doing good on the climate, since it’s obvious to me that he really isn’t.
That graph is a highly misleading way to evaluate a single national leader because China sharply increased their coal burning at the same time the US and EU started to cut emissions.