Some climate optimism was just what I needed today.

For climate change, I used to have the mental model that corporations, govenment, and consumers were blaming each other, passing the buck to each other for fixing climate change.

Now that corporations’ centuries-long, gradual takeover of government has suddenly kicked into high gear, we see how wrong that model was. Instead they’re immediately forcing the government to do even less to mitigate climate change.

I remember reading (might’ve been in The Undercover Economist) the proposal that the one industry that would have a lot to gain to lobby for climate regulation would’ve been the insurance industry. Obviously that didn’t happen.

(Also… “net zero”? We need net negative, even.)

@foolishowl@social.coop

Right but y’all got exaxtly two choices for executive branch because your founding fathers came up with that reckless first-past-the-post system and the electoral college.

Two candidates.

Biden did really good on this one.

All those “peak oil” fucks from last century are looking pretty damn wrong now. As I said back then and still saying now: We need to leave it in the ground. What’s in the ground isn’t the limit, what’s in the sky is. The lithosphere is limited but it’s still more than the atmosphere can handle.

Did we really need another warning of the dire consequences of climate change in this country? The answer, legally, was yes