• capital5@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    Wait, isn’t he supposed to be on the team that’s trying to stop climate change?

    Or does he think it’s safe to let his backroom deal persona out into the public now?

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah Newsom is an interesting character. Sometimes I don’t know what he really stands for. He’s been playing the “hate on Trump regarding everything” game for a while though so this is a continuation of that?

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        47 minutes ago

        Sounds like an opportunist. Someone who just says what he needs to get his way, but has no guiding principles.

        I can see how a message like this would sound coming from someone like Bernie Sanders, ie. high prices are squeezing regular people while oil companies bag the profit. Even if it’s good for people to drive less from a climate perspective, it has to be done in a way that doesn’t harm real people. But this guy just sounds like he’s angling for political points with no concern for real issues. Would make a terrible president, so I guess he has high chances to become the Democratic nominee.

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          46 minutes ago

          Yup! The Democrats will definitely choose him as he is already controversial on the left! They truly are just controlled opposition for the Republican party at this point 😂

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      2 hours ago

      Liberals won’t stop climate change, but some may want to look like they’re trying.

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    6 hours ago

    Again a reference to communism, when the price increase is a direct result of unregulated capitalism.

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      Yes, but Americans are spoiled and think gas should actually be $1/gallon. If it wasn’t for the damn evil regulations and climate crap we would have cheap gas! Other countries just aren’t doing capitalism as good as we are that’s why we deserve the cheapest gas! I’m not defending it, I’m just pointing out my perspective when people complain to me about gas prices. I don’t drive daily only on long trips so I’m disconnected from the prices usually.

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    9 hours ago

    The best deals, the BIGGEST and BESTEST. Fucking cuck can’t even negotiate himself out of an easy one. This is the wet paper bag training course, and he’s flunking it magnificently.

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      9 hours ago

      I agree but I think he will do the Republican thing and weasel out of it. The whole thing will collapse just as Democrats are elected and left to fix the mess. Then the media will happily pivot to blaming Dems on not fixing the mess fast enough. It’s just too predictable at this point.

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      9 hours ago

      If you buy food, you buy diesel. It’s what’s in the tractors and delivery trucks.

      This is why it’s literally impossible for an American to live a two tonne CO2 lifestyle. Emissions are imbedded in the supply chains and government.

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        8 hours ago

        How much of that food emissions is from beef though? Like even if you insist on still eating meat if you were to change to pork/chicken it would reduce emissions a lot.

        Although might be right for Americans, they have 3x what we do here per capita. Should be easier for me if I just need to do around half of what the average person does to get under 2. So heat pump, eat minimal meat with plenty of grains and veg instead, cycle to work, probably already most of the way there.

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          Little is from beef. Beef, while the worst for emissions per calorie, is a tiny part of the overall food chain. Grains dominate.

          You will get closer, but I suspect your nation is simply too wealthy to hit the target. The UK is 2.25x higher than two tonnes per capita.

          It might be achievable if you cycle, never step foot on an aircraft, eat a local vegetarian diet, live in a small space heated with a heat pump, and buy solely used durable products. Again, there’s too much carbon in the supply chain and government services like road maintenance

          Of course, you are miles ahead of the US.

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            Beef is like 40x the emissions of grain per kcal. Grains are also a lot of the overall value because they are uses as animal feed. Drop the need for animal feed and you significantly drop the need for grains.

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            live in a small space heated with a heat pump

            Their thin walls cause this to only be a tiny improvement I’d wager (still the best option though). They can even punch holes in their walls, if I tried this with a german drywall I’d break all the bones in my hand.

            but I suspect your nation is simply too wealthy to hit the target

            This implies environmental protection contradicts wealth (as in “lots of money in one n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ regional administrative zone”), a common conservative lie. It doesn’t, unfettered capitalism does. E.g. the solar business makes fucking bank but is a net positive on the environment. So are lots of other businesses. The definition of wealth is fucked anyway.

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              The U.S. is about 28 times larger than Germany. There is an entire continent worth of biomes here. Some places have thin walls, and some don’t. Insulation factor is less important in, say, San Diego than it is in Minneapolis, for example.

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    7 hours ago

    Honestly gas rationing is a good thing, fuck oil, fuck burning into climate change. Gavin is not on the left but kinda conservative since he wants to drive gas prices down.