• silence7OPM
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    10 months ago

    What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants, as well as phase out warming-inducing refrigerants.

    What Biden has not done: stop issuing drilling permits or impose export restrictions on fossil fuels. The former has some serious limits because of how the courts treat the right to drill as a property right once you hold a drilling lease, and the latter is simply untested.

    Age here isn’t the issue; it’s that we the US government is designed to spread power across multiple people and parts of government, and having a President who is willing to do the right thing isn’t enough.

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      10 months ago

      @silence7 Did I mention Biden? Age is absolutely the issue here. All these geezers won’t be here much longer, so they don’t actually give a shit about the environment or climate change. What does inflation matter in 50 years when there’s no drinking water or food?

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        10 months ago

        There are people who work to be good ancestors. I’m happy if somebody who behaves like that holds lower, no matter their age