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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

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Misinformation, fear and politics – how a South Dakota county drove away millions in solar energy (www.theguardian.com)

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Colton Berens was looking forward to the added income from his farm, but armed with rightwing falsehoods, other Selby residents opposed the move

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

You gotta hand it to them. On one hand, burning billions of tons of fossil fuels cannot possibly cause climate change; on the other, a single solar farm in rural South Dakota has the power to just change the atmosphere.

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