Trump is indirectly solving climate change
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The title is a bit misleading as there are only around 60 democratic states that meet to discuss fossil fuel exit. The majority of governments, including the the world's biggest polluters, are missing, particularly China and the US.
Surprised to see Nigeria on that list. Are they going to produce it, but not consume it?
China doesn't care because they will manufacture rooftop windmills if that's a catchy thing. They properly follow the money.
i dislike things about China's government, but the one thing you can't say about them is "they're incompetent"
addressing climate change is the only competent money making proposition if you look at the big picture
You definitely can make a case that they are as well. The main reason they are looking so good is the US is smoking meth and causing chaos.
Covid, their property market, youth unemployment,huge emissions growth and the many major industrial disasters. The insane mishandling of natural disasters like floods, remember the government officials that opened the upstream dam without any warning and flooded a tunnel during bumper to bumper rush hour. Oh and the genocide they're carrying out.
I'm not sure how much of this makes it to the world news but these were all huge news events for the Asia pacific region.
sorry yes. that's on me. these are all issues i have with china's government. they are ultimately a ruling class that exists to enrich an oligarchy. all of these things are bad. from my american perspective, they are bad for evil reasons, not for incompetence reasons. these are all desirable policy choices for the Chinese state.
it's just my government is both evil and incompetent.
This should have been happening 40 years ago, but now is better than never
That sort of happened. The IPCC was founded in 1988 for example. The issue is that it so far has not worked. Going smaller scale to develop some stronger treaties might help though. Especially if it includes some enforcement mechanism and punishments for countries, that do not go along. Like say carbon tairffs for example.
It's funny. I'm watching big tech companies that pushed for AI currently clambering to catch up to open source improvements to that tech. Why would you go with them when there's free, open, better options? They seem to have shit their beds and it keeps getting worse and worse.
And I can't help but watch Trump's obsession with oil rapidly accelerate USA's slow impending doom of keeping all the eggs in their fossil fuel industry and dependency.
is it obsession or source of bribe? he's getting paid by oil tycoons for this push, in my humble opinion
A coalition of the willing. Maybe it will have a more positive effect than the hijacked COP.
tbh this is a bad headline, this meeting group was put together specifically because the cop got hijacked, not because of iran fuel prices
The US have accelerated the rise of China, all to make Israel happy
You could not make this shit up
It's bittersweet because it just reinforces that our economy holds greater value than our survival.
Though, to be fair, we do seem to be a species that only takes reactive action. So climate change would never get resolved until it's full-swing fucking most of us over, at which point it'll be too late for most of us since it's basically there already.
The title is a bit misleading as there are only around 60 democratic states that meet to discuss fossil fuel exit. The majority of governments, including the the world's biggest polluters, are missing, particularly China and the US.
Most of the Asian countries and others are racing towards the use of renewables, faster than most western nations. The Iran war has at least sped up our planets pace of change. No doubt the big oil companies will fund whatever they need to get the best returns
Holy shit, will an angry vendetta of child abuser Trump actually bring around a faster transition to green energy in the rest of the world??
This was in the work for longer then Trumps attacks against Iran and Venezuela. The main issue is that the Cops are blocked by petrostates. So a smaller group of countries working on solutions to the issue, can really help a lot. It is also not the first of such groups.
However Trump most certainly somewhat helped the transition. Many green alternatives are already cheaper and countries, which were already on the path towards zero carbon have a good reason to accelerate the process. We seem to be in a world were petrostates vs electrostates.
The group of 60 states that discuss the fossil fuel phase out as described in the linked article formed during the latest COP last year in Brazil as the majority of governments refused to commit to an end of fossil fuels. China and the US, both among the world's largest polluters in total as well as per capita, are among these countries. They have no interest in a fossil fuel phase out.

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