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silence7,

The fossil fuels industry doesn’t bother with that

silence7,

A few reasons:

  • Spending significant amounts of money needs congressional support and the Republicans control one house of Congress
  • Changing laws requires not just a majority, but a 60% supermajority in the Senate
  • The US regulatory process is designed to be slow, and the EPA lost most of its staff under Trump, so they prioritized the low-hanging fruit
silence7,

He’s actually done a lot:

The Washington Post has a much more complete list

The reason this is on the to-do list instead of done is that Trump left the EPA short-staffed, so they’re only now thinking about the smaller harder pieces of decarbonization.

silence7,

I’m not. It takes electing more and better Democrats instead of lurching into fascism. We could well fail, but it’s crazy to not try

silence7,

It’s not so much about the stars all aligning, but needing to hold a majority of the centers of power for long enough. We’ve gone from being blown off to not having the votes to do anything at all to getting significant but not yet sufficient action. Getting to where we need to be is going to happen at some point, and it’s on us to make it happen sooner rather than later.

silence7,

We got a lot of that:

The Washington Post has a much more complete list

Some things got overturned in court, like the drilling permit moratorium.

Also, the mid-terms were in 2022. Getting more and better Democrats in congress plus reelecting Biden would make it possible to do a lot more.

silence7,

The US political system is designed to protect the prerogatives of the wealthy. It takes a sustained majority over time to overcome that. We’ve gotten to the point where there has been significant but not yet sufficient action:

The Washington Post has a much more complete list

silence7,

The problem is that it’s both fast enough to be a real problem, and slow enough that shifting baselines keep people from seeing it:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/f7f6572e-df2f-44a3-bf98-bec055b85501.webp

silence7,

The thing that’s going on in North America is that parts of cities where wealthy people live are done that way, but not areas for the poor. It creates a significant temperature difference between wealthy areas and poor ones.

California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception (www.nytimes.com)

For context, the big oil firms did a series of internal studies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s which accurately anticipated the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming that would result, but went and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead of looking for ways to move the world off fossil fuels.

silence7,

That’s the most recent piece of a big chunk of documents which have come out during earlier lawsuits over the past ten or twelve years. The Drilled Podcast has been chronicling the whole thing in detail.

Paywall-bypass to the WSJ article that The Guardian is describing

silence7,

Yeah, there are a bunch of small-scale oil companies in places like Pennsylvania which started extraction early

silence7,

We can’t do enough to do the whole job. No one thing is going to suffice. We can do enough to be a small piece of the solution.

silence7,

A lot of big firms have been tracking but not publishing this information already in anticipation that either California or the SEC will require disclosure.

There is also off-the-shelf accounting software to handle the tracking and reporting.

Small businesses aren’t required to do anything.

silence7,

Those are far smaller than what it will take

silence7,

That happens when you get enough rain to fill the reservoir and exceed its spillway capacity

silence7,

They don’t have anybody more likely to win the Democratic primary. Once somebody is elected president, their ability to fundraise basically makes it impossible to force them out unless they are fully incapacitated or do something which convinces the entire part to ditch them. Everybody knows this, so there are no credible challengers running.

That said, even before the march has started, it’s pushed the Biden administration to start making policy announcements, and it’s not like he didn’t do a lot already:

The Washington Post has a much more complete list

Realistically, a march like this will serve to get people fired up about trying to elect more and better Democrats to Congress, state, and local government, so that we get the kind of action we need.

silence7,

It’s the hottest in 125,000+ years, likely several million, which would mean hotter than since modern humans first walked the earth. I don’t think people much care that it was hotter during the Hadean Eon.

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