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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This one has a link to https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/08/climate-breakdown-will-hit-global-growth-by-a-third-say-central-banks

Maybe a client issue on your end?

Or are you subscribing via mastodon instead of lemmy?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

That was always the Rolling Stone business model — talk about the bands, and throw in a side of serious political news.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't say that the movement towards state action weakened under Biden; we got some great examples of it, such as the requirement for renewables in Minnesota.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry, but accelerationism only gets us a lasting fascism. It doesn't get us the kid of stable world where people can substitute wind and solar for fossil fuels

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

Probably six months before we see big auctions again.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They covered Project 2025 before the election, including the ties Trump's circle has to it.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

This is generally not a great way to do it, since the emissions largely coming from fossil fuel burning. Fewer people doesn't help much if we burn even more.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In practice, those rules made it easier to have centrist primary challenges to Democrats in congress, rather than left-wing ones.

The big thing we need to change is the media environment. Much of the US is a news desert, so people are depending on things like YouTube shorts and Xitter for their news.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

A whole bunch of Sanders supporters got themselves elected to the DNC and changed the rules to make contested primaries easier. The Democratic party isn't some static thing that we have no control over.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's a lot easier to reshape a political party than to dump them and start afresh.

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