This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump sat down with oil executives and told them that if he wins, he’ll scrap a slew of President Biden’s clean energy and other environmental regulations they don’t like — as long as they raise $1 billion for him.
The response?
Crickets.
Trump’s pay-for-play move was frequently described as “transactional.” The right word is “corrupt.”
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There is a big block for ads or an image or something right after that point IIRC so it just have detected that as end of the article unfortunately
The Republican party is burning political capital in Congress so that Congress doesn’t conduct a 14a3 vote to remove the disqualification from office clouding Trump’s candidacy. The trials are a red herring. Our options are status quo or acceleration and it turns out the fascists have been greasing the wheels of American politicians for years.
just heard a blurb from him about ending electric car subsidies on day one and his crowd cheered.
They only cheer for things that cause harm. The louder a conservative cheers, the more deadly the news.
Conservatism is a cancer that will kill us all if it is not stopped.
Bunch of zombies
Haven’t ev makers just raised prices by whatever the subsidy amount is? So not like that actually affects the masses.
The US military is one of the worlds largest polluters. Biden has spent 10x more money on the military than climate change initiatives. Speaking concern about climate change, than doing little to mitigate it sounds anti climate to me.
Except Biden has been decreasing the size of the military and growing the C.C.C.
And is also beginning the conversion of the military to green energy.
Try again, I’m sure you can make better anti-biden propaganda than this.
Trump is an immediate existential threat, as he was for the Million Americans who perished from COVID over two years due to a purposefully sandbagged and almost entirely useless pandemic response. Climate it really important, but there are more important things, and climate is not a winner trying to get the Christofascists to NOT vote for the Orange Hitler
I rabidly disagree that there is any more important topic than climate change. If you have read the actual studies and data about it, you would agree with me. If it is not addressed in a timely manner (read: a decade ago, but better late than never) there will be billions dead WITHIN YOUR LIFETIME.
good thing neither US party wants to deal with it quickly! :(
There are so many things to finish “corrupt anti-_______ agenda” phrase. It’s about time Americans stop voting for single issues.
Americans just need to vote. Low turnout historically results in Republican Presidents.
Inaction is action.
It’s not a distraction. We know and we can hold two thoughts in our mind. These “x is a distraction from y” articles/comments/takes in general don’t help. They just tell people who care about x that their concern is secondary and they’re distracted. That’s not right.
Some people just can’t focus on two things, even if you can.
Like, people keep pretending Biden is some climate activist…
He blew straight past Trump’s record fossil fuels production records and set his own.
And sure, less domestic use sounds good, but it would actually be better than shipping coal across the globe using fossil fuels before burning the coal.
I don’t know if it’s long term effects of COVID or what, but these last few years I’m constantly overestimating people.
This is incredibly patronizing of you. You’re one step away from calling everyone else “sheeple“ while holding yourself up as the exception.
I am not going to tell LGBT people they are distracted by Trump and the GOP’s regressive policies towards them because they aren’t giving enough attention to climate issues. I’m not going to tell women they are distracted by Roe’s repeal and the subsequent fallout. I am not going to apologize for caring about project 2025 and the planned dismantling of our entire system in service of a petty manchild. I also care about climate issues, as do many people who care about the issues I listed.
The only critique, as I said earlier, is that outlets have not reported on this enough. But they can report on multiple things. Lack of coverage does not mean we are all distracted by other coverage except for you and WAPO.
It’s not his fault that there is a significant portion of the planet that is, in fact, quite dumb. It doesn’t make them worth less as humans, but it is something that needs to be considered.
Reducing everybody who doesn’t prioritize the same things as you to such lengths is ridiculous. I don’t care what your perception is of “the average person.“ That’s egotistical teenager logic.
Once again, we can call out media outlets for not properly prioritizing this. But to shutdown other people’s priorities and blame them for the lack of coverage in order to elevate it is intellectually dishonest and counterproductive finger pointing.
Quit using marginalized people as human shields to defend shitty politics and their shitty policy
What politics am I defending? I agree the coverage by media outlets has been terrible. This is a serious threat to our climate.
You also don’t know the first thing about me. I am not using anyone as a shield. Get fucked. Blocking and moving on I don’t need your brand of disingenuous shit.
The problem isn’t “people think something else is important” — it’s mostly that nobody hears about the big issue in the first place because the press is covering other issues.
So is it our fault or the press’s fault that the thing you want covered isn’t getting enough coverage?
And again, that doesn’t change the point. They can still write about this. It doesn’t mean other things people care about are a needless distraction. They are important to you. And I’m sure someone could point at this article and go “this is a distraction, while you were arguing about this, you should’ve actually cared about z issue.”
It’s a race to the bottom. The lack of coverage of this issue does not mean we have to say everyone else has bad priorities. It’s not a zero sum game. The press can cover multiple things. The only critique should be that the press has not covered this adequately.
It not one or the other — there’s a relationship between the lack of coverage, and people not being concerned.
If you’re calling it a distraction, then yes, it is literally one or the other. One is distracting from the other. It is saying that the things we care about do not actually matter, they are a distraction from what matters. So yeah I’m going to take a little issue with that.
