There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.
Well, they have an unfair advantage. They actually believe in clean energy.
Good news everyone. Trump has the answer!
The answer:
Really incredible that this isn’t satire
Is Coalie really Towlie’s West Virginia cousin??
Yeah. Ok, the Chinese have all that future proof energy but they don’t have even one coal based participation award. It’s like they are not even trying!!
Worst thing is those in power in the US think they’re actually winning , and the rest of the world (and actually most of the US) is just wrong!
Worst thing is those in power in the US think they’re actually winning
No they do not, they don’t even give two flying shits about America other than the nutcases that think they can reshape it into a white-techno-fascist-oligarchy and that they know what’s best for the population as they practice super-villain speeches in the mirror. But enough Stephen Miller specifically. The rest are just trying to get their bag and run.
Those in power in the US are deliberately hiding the advancements of other countries to keep the middle-class and blue-collar workers here deluded into thinking that their 10-hour workdays with no benefits is still the best in the world because you have the “freedom” to go buy mass-produced goods at Walmart or pay $7000 to walk into the ER of your choice when you suffer a critical illness or injury.
And it works wonders. You don’t need to censor the whole world or make militarized walls like North Korea (But it helps, hint hint: the “wall” they wanted to make was not to keep people out.) you just need to keep the bulk of people busy and distracted and out of touch with the rest of the world, and most people don’t care about anything outside of their daily life anyway.
If you want evidence of how deliberate this campaign of mass-delusion is, just fire up your favorite media website in another country, and look how radically different the news stories are, how radically different the tone is, how huge the outside world is and what the bulk of humanity actually care about. (Usually it’s everyone worried America is going to fuck everything up for everyone else.)
Because idea of winning is different from the rest of sane people.
I don’t think they think of it as winning. I don’t think they care.
All they know is that several states have economies dependent on fossil fuel extraction with no other meaningful economic replacement.
Aren’t they? There’s never been a time for a few can enrichment themselves so much through government, implement the most vile policies through government, ignore consequences, laws, and checks and balances through government. A few highly self-centered individuals are living out their most hateful dreams
Some of them are winning. At this point the game is shifting to an internal fight between domestic oligarchs for power and therefore profit.
U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition
Uhm? How the fuck does one abandon something they never had??
A lot of early wind, solar, battery, and electric vehicle work was done in the US. The country has steadily lost leadership in all of those due to a lack of political support
It was starting under Biden.
What a central government without oil lobbies does to a country
They do it because they don’t have enough oil and they know it.
From the article it seems they do have vested interests in coal.
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Will America even be around in a decade… Are they gonna have a two state solution?
No. You can’t split a country along urban/rural lines. Even if you split out the south, the rest would fight to take it back due to all the resources there, especially things like military bases.
I’d much prefer to see the US split up into separate states, then form a union much like the EU instead of the monolithic eldritch crap they have right now.
That’s sort of what we have now? A federal government that is made up of a union of states…
What we really need is to fix Congress and restore their power.
Republicans have been shifting power from Congress to the executive and judicial branches for the last 50 years. All because they want a king.
Fixing Congress would take a single bill. Namely H.R. 4125, the Equal Voices Act.
Well, that’s the first step. There are more, but H.R. 4125 would be like 70% of it.
Realistically it’ll probably be more like a bankruptcy thing and admittedly somewhat like what Trump is doing.
Consider all he’s doing to destroy our industry, science, technology, throw away any global influence and good will, wreck our strong trading position, turn us inward, isolated, xenophobic. Keep people desperate with lost jobs, healthcare, government services. Think how that plays with the $1T in tax cuts for the wealthy, and leaving all our prior debt levels in the dust.
What happens when that all catches up? We forced into austerity measures, high inflation, unending joblessness, military we can’t come close to affording? Tax rates skyrocket and We fight to reclaim those tax cuts for the wealthy.
That would be bad. I can’t see a scenario where the US crumbles in a decade without global collateral damage.
A silent exit from global superpower would be the best option that involves the least amount of bloodshed
Oh yeah!? Well, we caught up to China in fascism, so we can catch up to them in clean energy too!
News from 2014?
Don’t worry, America is skillfully avoiding the dust clouds by running in the fully opposite direction, towards irrelevance!
- in the clean coal dust
