It’s not meant to benefit consumers, it’s meant to enrich fossil-fuel companies even more.

The builders’ lobby is powerful in CA.

why does it seem to be the only solution for consumers that is offered

Because it’s the least intrusive and most economical option?

They can look at my house from maps and see of got a sizable empty plot of land next to my house that could also be used.

Then put it there and pay more. Up to you.

Of course he did. He was put in to destroy US power and wealth. Undermining soft power is part of that.

I strongly suspect a funding channel originating from fossil-fuel producers.

The UK currently doesn’t do even the most trivial of reuse. But the privatised water companies would rather impose metering followed by price increases to deter consumption, since that’ll mean more money for them.

Only if we let it happen.

Experts say, assuming the rule of law still exists.

Degrowth is also based on the fallacy that economic activity has a constant or at least near-constant energy intensiveness. But real-life economies already vary by at least an order of magnitude in energy consumed per unit GDP. So as long as energy intensiveness declines faster than the population grows, it’s still a net win.

And just to keep things in perspective, there’s also a lot of false narratives about how population reductions are inevitably a bad thing. The underlying reason is that some of the measures of economic performance are proportional to population. But those are the wrong measures to be looking at if you want to know how life is for the average (median) person.

Attacking allies is very much his style.

The chart linked to the “soaring Russian economy” link shows the Ruble exchange rate, which says very little about the state of the overall Russian economy, except foreign exchange. And that exchange-rate chart shows the value of the Ruble doing down the shitter.

So I’m guessing you were being sarcastic.

She’s a lying, corrupt denialist, not a sceptic. Sceptics respond to evidence.

Punching “down” at a major party political candidate? Yeah, right.

Then they’ll turn around and deny climate destruction in order to protect their funding sources.

Fascism has never been about consistency.

The corporations will. We’ll pay higher energy costs and higher insurance costs too, and the climate crisis will keep on accelerating.