As a result, democracies across the planet are now threatened by what might be called fossil fuel fascism – an extremist political movement that breaks laws, spreads lies and threatens violence in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain markets for oil, gas and coal that would otherwise be replaced by cheaper renewables.
Finally, a more mainstream news org able to put out an opinion properly calling out the US as fascist, and “fossil fuel fascism” is an apt phrase to describe the deliberate effort by Republicans, billionaires and corporations to hinder progress and kill the planet for their own bottom lines.
I’ve become more emboldened to talk to people about how much better renewables have become and will be… clearly it’s having an effect against trillion dollar corporate and state backed PR campaigns.
Yeah word of mouth is definitely doing its bit, but the economics stand up as well.
The US will exhaust every option but the right one though, so it’ll be a fight for them for a while
The war is not looking good for ICE vehicles in other developed countries however.
Usually when you are trying to kill a bear with a small knife and trying to keep it away from the last pile of hamburger meat in the room … the bear is going to by very, very, very angry and hurt a lot of people.
In this instance, the bear is capitalism and billionaires
