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Will Heat Waves Become a Voting Issue? More people recognize that climate change is driving deadly heat waves than believe either Trump or Biden would make a good president. (newrepublic.com)

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They each served one term. Let’s compare their progress.

Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, revoked the Keystone Pipeline permit, created a 13 million acre federal petroleum reserve for Alaskan wildlife, greatly increased oil site lease cost, signed $7B in solar subsidies, invested $66B in passenger rail, enacted the Inflation Reduction act to support clean energy, increased the electric car consumer tax credit, increased energy efficiency standards on cars, appliances, and industry, and created new permitting rules to streamline transmission lines.

Trump repealed 112 climate regulations and left the Paris Climate Agreement.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are 100% correct but even this understates the impact of what Biden did by a certain amount.

He spent roughly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS on climate change. Experts have estimated that the impact of the climate bill, all other things being equal (har har), will be to put us at a 40% reduction from our peak emissions by the year 2030.

The last big expenditure on climate change was $80 billion, and that was in 2009.

Is 40% enough? Fuck no, and it's coming way too late. But I still have NO idea how he got the current crop of idiots and crooks in Washington, who are almost unanimously on team "let's fuck up the climate even more, we're in a position to REALLY squeeze some dollars now that prices are going up, let's see what this bad boy can do", to agree to that. It honestly is a little mind boggling.

Even if he does literally nothing with a second term, he's already more than 5 times better than any other US president on climate change. Even if Trump wasn't explicitly planning to reverse all of that and do his best to set new records for how much worse it can get, and he were running against some normal non apocalypse opponent, it would still be a good idea to give him a second term and see if he can do more with it.

The fact that people understand what a crisis the climate is, but still don't see a reason to support Biden because after all he is a known old person, is a testament to the absolutely cataclysmic (literally) level of failure by the media to do their fucking jobs.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

He spent roughly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS on climate change. ... Is 40% enough? Fuck no, and it's coming way too late.

In data. Most people still don't understand how fucked we are (meaning us humans, globally, not just Americans), especially if Trump wins again. Very grim outlook honestly, but I guess we, as a specis, deserve what is coming for us. Just sad for the potential we had, and all the other life we take down with us.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Georgia, it's "illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place" and "punishable by up to a year in prison."

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The narrator also suggests that voters might have to wait in line outside polling places for as long as eight hours.

Can't you vote by mail in the US? Why do this to yourself? In Germany I always vote via mail and it is super convenient as I can just throw it into the mail on my way to the grocery store.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

republiQans have limited voting by mail because it means more votes for them. Most states have some kind of vote-by-mail system but it’s constantly under attack by republiQans.

See also; gerrymandering, closing polling stations, challenging voter registration, and other unAmerican activities by republiQans.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Figured. It's kinda telling too. In a democracy you want as many people to vote as possible, so you'd think you would make the process as easy as possible too. Anything else would not give you proper representation of the populace.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The right wing learned a long time ago they must cheat to maintain power. And so they do.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

If voting was about policies and proper representation, the right-wing party would have long since been extinct lol. They have none of that going for them.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

LOL this post is so seven hours ago. Biden is not running for President.