Making it hard to learn the details is one of many actions they’re taking. People in general are really confused about what is needed, which makes meaningful action harder.

Yes but it’s a lot harder for people to find, which means that essentially nobody will every look at it.

We may well have locked in meaningful change, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over: the bulk of fossil fuels are still in the ground.

Or…people who might actually change policy as they act.

The Republican dream

You’re assuming that the world is covered in server racks. I don’t expect anything like that, even with significant increases in datacenter construction.

Let’s assume 1kw per person. 10 billion people at peak population some time hence. So about 150 billion m² to provide 1kw per person 24/7. The earth’s surface area is 510.1 trillion m², of which about 1/3 is land. So we’re probably just fine on renewables.

Nah. They bought off the feds, so they’ve got years to go. Also, it’s a lot more profitable for shareholders to find a greater fool to sell to than it is to exit the business.

I agree that it would have been better for people to figure things out a lot sooner. Its really hard for folks who are either listening to the right wing propaganda machine or tuned out from the news. I’ll take late over never any day.

Three options:

1. Go to every embassy or consulate you can and try to get a visa
2. Live illegally in another country
3. End up in a concentration camp

That would be an amazing outcome — it would enable the whole world to shift to renewable energy cheaply.

Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.

Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle

What I’m seeing is that I get a paywall the instant I scroll past the end of the article. Is that what’s happening for you?

I prefer to give people space to change who they are and how they vote.

Missed the link on the post; fixed now.

They know who butters their bread

Though I’ll note that the dependence is somewhat limited; the US has been a net oil exporter for several years.

I only see the paywall on other articles. Does your browser or lemmy instance remove the token from the URL?

Do you have a browser extension or lemmy instance which strips the token out of the URL? Because I’m definitely not hitting it

Top-level link is a gift link, so you shouldn’t be hitting the paywall to begin with.

They’re nutty, but not quite that nutty

There are ice vests for workers already. Not fun to have to use .