also those metrics are almost always hiding a giant elephant in the corner which fucks the scales entirely — because the Department of “Defense” and their global imperial-behemoth-without-compare military lobbies to not be included in metrics and regulations and climate agreements, and where they are included they bury and manipulate and launder data, to hide that the US military is the single largest institutional consumer of petrochemicals, and #1 institutional emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide — more than the total emissions of 140 countries.
yeah, electric vehicles and stuff could theoretically help by centralizing the energy to efficient source points for gathering and storing the energy (which is still fossil fuels which people forget often) which is used for charging batteries (disposal then becomes its own things, as well as mineral components), rather than just dumping gas and oil on an individual level into every vehicle large and small, efficient and grotesque, and all the idiot consumptive stuff like lawn mowers (which pollute way worse than cars because there’s no regulation and the engines are much less efficient);
But the US doesn’t and won’t have that, because its energy sector is owned by ‘decentralized-centralized’ monopolies (a bunch of shells and subsidiary daughter companies owned by the same people, for book-cooking of course, legally and financially), whose sole goal is profit and increasing consumption in general. China has the capability to do this ‘centralization-for-efficiency’ transition to cut emissions; but the US not only won’t, but is incapable of doing so without completely smashing and overturning its entire structure of economy, and the political structures which grow out of it.
Did some back of the napkin math the other day about exactly this. When the US flew B-2s from Australia to bomb Yeman. An insane thing to do by any metric and certainly by any green metric. But we just really had to bomb those Yemanis ok?
Or that China installed more solar in 2023 than the US has in its entire history, while both Biden and Harris have bragged about how the US is drilling more oil than any point in its history.
or that China has a massive population and pollutes WAY LESS per capita, the metric that actually matters if you’re not a malthusian nationalist
also those metrics are almost always hiding a giant elephant in the corner which fucks the scales entirely — because the Department of “Defense” and their global imperial-behemoth-without-compare military lobbies to not be included in metrics and regulations and climate agreements, and where they are included they bury and manipulate and launder data, to hide that the US military is the single largest institutional consumer of petrochemicals, and #1 institutional emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide — more than the total emissions of 140 countries.
Also the majority of what we classify as green energy in the west isn’t green, it’s just cooking the books until it looks green
yeah, electric vehicles and stuff could theoretically help by centralizing the energy to efficient source points for gathering and storing the energy (which is still fossil fuels which people forget often) which is used for charging batteries (disposal then becomes its own things, as well as mineral components), rather than just dumping gas and oil on an individual level into every vehicle large and small, efficient and grotesque, and all the idiot consumptive stuff like lawn mowers (which pollute way worse than cars because there’s no regulation and the engines are much less efficient);
But the US doesn’t and won’t have that, because its energy sector is owned by ‘decentralized-centralized’ monopolies (a bunch of shells and subsidiary daughter companies owned by the same people, for book-cooking of course, legally and financially), whose sole goal is profit and increasing consumption in general. China has the capability to do this ‘centralization-for-efficiency’ transition to cut emissions; but the US not only won’t, but is incapable of doing so without completely smashing and overturning its entire structure of economy, and the political structures which grow out of it.
In short:
EL PROBLEMA ES EL CAPITALISMO
I was actually talking about the whole biofuel scam, but also what you’re saying yes
Did some back of the napkin math the other day about exactly this. When the US flew B-2s from Australia to bomb Yeman. An insane thing to do by any metric and certainly by any green metric. But we just really had to bomb those Yemanis ok?
Or that China installed more solar in 2023 than the US has in its entire history, while both Biden and Harris have bragged about how the US is drilling more oil than any point in its history.