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Talk with people you know. Let them know what is going on. Call your congressmember. Visit your congressmembers district office. Get people organized to turn out and turn out others during the midterms next year.
Yeah, GM was working with California in a fairly constructive way for several years. This is a major flip from that.
It’s a change from their recent position; they were one of the automakers which worked with California on an ICE phase-out starting 2019.
Otherwise unusable wind and solar exist seasonally in some places, and the same goes for geothermal in Iceland where climeworks operated.
This kind of thing makes sense as a research operation, not as a commercial endeavor right now.
No insurer is going to take a large underwriting loss year after year
We have much more detailed estimates of impact on the first world.
Most of them will, but it only takes a handful who won’t to sink the bill.
Yeah, the Inflation Reduction Act was quite deliberately designed to create a huge jobs incentive in Republican-leaning districts so that there would be real pain for Republicans who voted to repeal it. They may do so anyways.
There were still copies in the National Archives. Just not readily available to the public, and more importantly, not getting updates.
It’s not just cancer; its a very quantifiable death count
Yes, been a net fossil fuel exporter for a while.
Yeah, I have an older model of that sitting around from before I replaced my main stove.
That’s two of the big three sources of household emissions. There’s a third one though: which is heating and cooling.
I’d look at getting those off of fossil fuels next, and doing what you can to get electricity from renewables.
That’s the top 10% in the United States. They’re talking about the top 10% in the world.
You’re welcome. I try to provide global coverage, but both the search tools and my personal network tend to be a bit US-focused.
Always been about states right to enforce slavery. Nothing else.
It’s not so much “obstructions” as that it requires both earned expertise and hard work to create stuff.
Destruction is always fast and easy. Creating takes real effort
The question is what is most cost-effective at cutting emissions with a limited budget. I dont claim to known the right answer, but that’s how I would decide if it was up to me.