You could look at this and see it as pandering, which it is, but I also take it as a decent sign that they have to at least pay lip service to renewables since fossil fuels have become a significant liability in many eyes.
Yeah, individuals make decisions within the structures that exist around them. Asking people to heroically sacrifice their own financial or career opportunities as opposed to changing those structures just won’t succeed.
They actually had an industrial policy for the last forty years, unlike the United States or Europe, which both abdicated their interests to those of giant corporations whose only goals are reducing costs and increasing profits.
But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?
Regulation could work, we just need the political will to give these agencies teeth and goals that align with reality
We need to just stop digging stuff out of the ground and burning it for energy. Until that fundamental realization sets in, we’re stuck with an increasingly worsening climate crisis.
“Who the hell is putting my quotes on the internet” - Vladimir Lenin
Ah yeah, kind of a dick move to make fun of someone’s appearance though.
Look, freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences unless you shout “I’ve been canceled” on your nationally syndicated radio show to an audience of millions
The climate change itself isn’t the danger to our species, it’s the nuclear-armed states that will feel increasing pressure for areas with water or other resources they need, who miscalculate relative advantage in stressful scenarios.
sad yarr
Why is it that we can identify systemic problems, but never propose public policy as a solution? Everything has to come down to the consumer seeking out information and making the sometimes more costly or inconvenient choice on their own, while their neighbors all go on blissfully unaware or uncaring
We need one person to be cannibal Jesus and take all the cannibalism on themselves for the good of the rest of us.
Hey hon, y’all want a grump, slump or sonker? - diner waitress that had a stroke
Now where oh where did I leave my guillotine
Being shitty to people is bad for them, more at 11
Could it be because they’re centering technology that’s inherently unreliable? GPT is just a guessing machine