If you’re an American, and you want to stop Trump, it’s important to be actively involved:
- Check your voter registration - there’s been an active effort to purge voter rolls, and if you moved or changed name, you’ll need to register again anyways
- Talk with people you know about voting for Democrats up and down the ballot. Personal endorsement matters.
- Volunteer — it makes a real difference
- If you can afford it, donate to the Biden campaign. Even fairly modest amounts of money from a lot of people add up to being able to hire staff and run ads.
Tell everyone you know in Michigan to vote. The rest of us barely matter
“could” ffs
Not a fan of voting along party lines up and down the ballot. That just promotes our current state of platformless policitians. Try your best to learn about candidates including third party candidates and vote for the best possible representative. Obviously vote for Biden to keep Trump out, but if you are trying to get. Someone right leaning to think about helping keep this dumbass out of office, you are just going to turn them away by telling them to vote democrat across the ballet. Stay laser focused on keeping Trump out of office.
But he might bring about the complete collapse of the US… which would result in less emissions.
Try to be more optimistic!
Funny joke, but fer serious…
A complete collapse of the US wouldn’t mean a carbon free utopia, it would mean corporations would be the defacto government (they already pretty much are, but we still have weekends and pollution control. Megacorps will turn everything into the mining towns of old where everyone is completely owned by the mining companies and pollution controls, labor laws and healthcare are non-existant.
Yeah I was just being fatuous.
continued existence of capitalism does that already
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpus2&f=m let’s petroleum production as at a near all time high. Let’s not pretend Biden is doing a bang up job on climate. We need more seats in Congress on top of the Presidency to make meaningful change.
He’s not perfect, but petroleum is only part of it. What he’s done has been to put in place the policies which will enable future decarbonization
It’s better than Republican policy, but it’s not where it could be with a representative further left on the spectrum.
That would only work if there was a majority for left-wing policy. Simply having a president who’s further on the left would not actually change that much of they have to find compromises with people who don’t care about the physical reality.
would*
At risk of by chance being somehow miraculously reached? The climate goals will soon be as dead as the polar bears.
What climate goals? I see a lot of talk about deadlines and dreams. I don’t see much to indicate that there are any goals.
In sports, a goal is something that everyone puts coordinated and concerted effort into achieving.
In business, a goal is something that everyone puts coordinated and concerted effort into achieving.
If the climate “goals” that were set in the 1990s, weak as they were, had been actual goals, we’d now be planning the closure of the last pipelines, not celebrating the opening of new ones and planning for the next. We’d be planning the closure of the last oil and gas fields, not looking for new drilling and fracking opportunities.
Sure, Trump and his ilk are going to make a show of getting in the way, but it’s not like there is any coordinated, concerted effort for them to block.
Will make it worse, but if you look into the harms of natural gas (AKA Methane) the USA is already doing more damage than ever with much more coming online and even more planned. Climate Town video on the subject: https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?si=r9YNB_9FPAroQCG8.
Trump will just make an already dire situation worse which might actually bring it all to a head sooner. Not an endorsement but more acknowledgment of the sad reality we are actually in.
Those fugitive emissions from crude gas (‘natural’ gas) are crazy! It blows my mind that it could make the greenhouse impact even worse than coal. Those methane sensing satellites are really important so what we can actually check the emissions to see how bad they are.
Right. I really think the USA and Canada need to pull their heads out of the oil and gas executives assea and do the right thing for the entire planet. They can be the cause or a major win for the decline of civilization. We are hitting do or die inflections here.
The thing about methane is that it breaks down within a few years, so the impact is largely about rate of release, unlike CO2 where concentration remains elevated pretty much forever in human terms.
This means that if we stop extraction of gas, it ends up having only a modest impact on how hot it is after that
My understanding is different https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-methane-is-short-lived-in-the-atmosphere-but-leaves-long-term-damage-145040
Also, we cant afford any of it. As soon as we end up in a dustbowl situation a world war will likely be the result.
Once nations are in wartime survival mode, carbon resuction will be out the window and I sincerely think we’ll turn the earth into an uninhabitable hellscape where everyone dies.
Everyone. It may take a while for the last people to go, but I do mean everyone. People will construct elaborate bunker systems and try to make self contained farming centers, but the reality is that stuff is way harder than it looks and all it takes is one disease, one fire or power disaster, or one psycho to destroy the crops, whoch is likely after a hundred or so years and woop, everyone dies.
Remember kids. A vote for the right in any country is a vote for Putin and Xi.
And so could the election of any other politician.
Wow you’re so enlightened with your centricity here.
I mean really, whats the difference between eating a turd and eating 100 turds?
I don’t mean to downplay the environment, but I think we’ll have a long list of worries… 🫨
This is a c/climate, so we’re talking climate. Lots of other reasons to prefer Biden over Trump (and to avoid third-party candidates)
And none of those other worries will matter when you starve to death because we fucked our ecosysten which we get our food from.
A lot of those worries are worries exactly because they divide and distract people.
Abortion was resolved in the 1970s… Until politicians found they could win votes and divide people by putting the right for a woman to have control over her body into the discourse; demonizing people and lying about abortion being baby killing is a great way to control people.
Migration, economy, even healthcare will all be fucked if we dont address the climate.
Google climate refugee, dengue fever climate change and climate disaster costs if you dont believe me.
