Environment & Energy
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In Donald Trumps world laid bare during Thursday nights final presidential debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden in Nashville fossil fuels are very clean, the US has the best air and water despite his administrations extensive regulatory rollbacks, and the country can fix climate change by planting trees. But according to the harsh realities being laid out by climate scientists, Trumps world does not exist.
Humanity has just eight years to figure out how to get climate change under control before the future starts to look drastically worse multiple-degree temperature increases, global sea-level rise, and increasingly disastrous wildfires, hurricanes, floods and droughts. Doing so will mean that unless there is a technological miracle, humans will at some point have to stop burning oil, gas and coal. Were told by all the leading scientists in the world we dont have much time, Biden said. Were going to pass the point of no return within the next eight to 10 years. Four more years of this man
will put us in a position where well be in real trouble, the former vice-president said.
Much of the media coverage of the exchange which as usual didnt come until the end of the debate as time was running out will probably focus on Trumps attacks on Biden. He called his plan job-killing, argued it would cost $100tn and not $6tn, and accused Biden of flip-flopping on fracking. The drilling method has fueled a natural gas boom in swing states such as Pennsylvania, which both candidates see as critically important to winning the election. At one point, Biden dared Trump to publish evidence of him ever saying he would end fracking, and Trump promised he would.
Stories might quote Trump, who has denied the human-made climate crisis in a variety of strange ways, telling Biden I know more about wind than you, despite previously wrongly claiming wind power causes cancer. They want to take buildings down because they want to make bigger windows into smaller windows. As far as theyre concerned if you had no window it would be a lovely thing, Trump accused in another tangent. This is the craziest plan that anyone has ever seen. It wasnt done by smart people. Frankly, I dont know how it could be good politically.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/23/joe-biden-transition-from-oil-industry-rowing-back
Blue Owl
(49,906 posts)That if he just thinks there will be sparkly clean water it will just magically happen, and that he'll really plant 1 trillion trees (um, you might want to get on Donny that because it takes a hell of a lot of time and labor to plant 1 trillion trees).
That fucker lives in a fantasy world.
sop
(9,945 posts)enough pressure.