Baffling that some still either choose to ignore the problem or outright oppose any efforts to mitigate it. Climate change shouldn't be a political issue. It will be an existential issue.
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I wouldn't really call it baffling: the Republican party operates as a patronage machine, with people who made their money extracting fossil fuels being key patrons.
Largely anecdotal but my experience is the people I know that were soundly in the "climate change isn't real and it's just a hoax" camp are now pretty much all in the "okay it's probably real but just a natural thing that happens to the earth. Happened before and will happen again. It has nothing to do with us." So it makes sense that a person with that mindset would ignore the problem or even acknowledge it straight on but refuse to actually do anything about it.
Still baffling tho...
"Alright fine, my house is burning down around me, but it wasn't arson, it's just an electrical fire! I'm just gonna hang out on the sofa and watch Fox."
A reminder that the Republican Party is the only climate-denying major political party in the world.
They're all assholes. The United States is the one country that can lead climate reformation on a global scale and they're worried about dicking their opponents. My children deserve better.
Carbon capture is a scam.
Either say "pollute what you want into the atmosphere but then you are responsible for carbon capture to remove it" or get fucked.
Carbon tax is the best solution.
Carbon capture is supposed to capture carbon before it's released into the atmosphere.
But yeah, it's a scam, because it's real easy for polluters to say they're capturing without actually capturing.
It would certainly work, but hasn't had the support to get through Congress. So the Democrats passed an almost-all-carrots approach in the Inflation Reduction Act
It's scientifically and physically possible but it's not economically possible.
Throwing money into a hole isn't going to make it the solution. We need to fund it because it is a need solution for the future. But at them moment we are far better fixing other problems.
Basically we got a hole in the ship and water is pouring in. Some oil CEO fuckwit wants to design a pump to get the water out and tells everyone that letting water in isn't a bad thing. In fact it's a good thing because if we ignore it we have more resources to go towards this pump.
About 1% of Inflation Reduction Act goes to removal like that. Most of it is spent on decarbonization of electric generation and electrification of homes