Can we gut Jeff?
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Like the NYT, they weren't that reliable on it either way.
In general, if journalists took climate change seriously, most of media would be about it; most screens would be half about it, with tickers and banners constantly on it. The anti-alarmists are the half-assers who took the air out of it.
A big joke about these mainstream publications is how quickly they'd open their pockets to accept fossil fuel industry native advertisement money. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, The Economist, et al - they'd always have some kind of AEI industry flak or Heartland Institute goober or Saudi stooge pen an Op-Ed about how fossil fuels are inescapable and alternatives don't work / cost too much / have a secret downside orders of magnitude worse than O&G.
It was the same "We Report, You Decide" bullshit that FOX News played out in big bold letters for their rube base. The fishwrap editions just knew how to play their cards closer to the chest.
It's so silly. Even if you don't understand the science of climate change (which isn't that fucking hard to understand) you can definitely understand this;
- Solar PV + Battery:
2.0–2.7 USD/W (2.4$/kW) - Solar PV standalone: ~1.33–2.74 USD/W
- Wind (onshore): ~1.46–5.9 USD/W
- Hydro: ~3.0–5.9 USD/W
- Coal: ~3.1–5.5 USD/W
- Natural Gas (combined cycle): ~1.06–1.2 USD/W
- Oil/peakers (simple turbines): ~0.8–2.6 USD/W
- Nuclear: ~6.7–8.0 USD/W
Even with batteries solar has the greatest fricken ROI in this list at the cheapest cost.
Fossil fuels are finite. After you pay back your solar panel capex your opex is barely anything and for the next 20-30 you have free fucking energy.
Jeebus, even if you don't give a shit about the environment picking anything but renewables is like the dumbest decision you can use your money on.
Apparently conservatives are not only shit businessmen but their also dumb fucks who will believe anything you tell em as long as you throw in some racist platitudes
Conservative governments in Western democracies have always tanked the economy. Always.
with late stage capitalism, you get better ROI sabotaging the competition and just generally smashing shit around you. america is filled to the brim with disaster capitalists and republicans being in power is their green-light to finally take their masks off
it's a smart decision if you're worried about giving china leverage
It may become cheaper once they cut all the various safety and environmental regulations
Wow, 30%

Worth repeating that medias should be owned by their journalists, and financed by giving citizens an allocation that they'll distribute between medias as they see fit, like a vote.
The thing is that it's not a problem of solutions but of will, they want to control us, otherwise they'd improve the current system.
They're already talking about just taking Greenland, and probably Antarctica. Climate change is locked in.
They do buy a lot of electricity generated by wind and solar. They also buy a huge amount generated using fossil fuels. Amazon got kicked out of the Science Based Targets Initiative because they weren't willing to actually go ahead with getting off of fossil fuels.
Can't wait to watch the Seattle Kraken play at Climate Pledge Arena, which Amazon bestowed that name upon.
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