Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@breadandcircuses You know, we can’t afford this fix, better to burn up than lose my pile of gold. 🤔
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In the piece below, the author asks, "Why is the government putting big money behind dubious carbon capture projects that specifically benefit Big Oil and help delay climate action?"
Spoiler: It's capitalism.
You probably already knew that, but the article does a great job of explaining exactly why subsidizing carbon capture is such a disastrous policy choice, and why the Biden administration nevertheless is pouring billions of dollars into it...
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Record heat waves. Widespread fires. Devastating storms. The tragic toll of climate change is becoming more evident every day.
To avoid even more severe impacts in the future, we must quickly and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions — largely caused by fossil fuels. Fortunately, the tools we need to cut emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy, and beyond are growing quickly, becoming better and more affordable over time.
We will also need some “carbon removal” in the future — where we use nature (with trees or soils) or industrial processes to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, sequester it, and keep it from adding to our climate woes.
In the last few years, more attention has focused on industrial methods, because they can bury carbon in permanent, geologic reservoirs, unlike trees and soils that can burn down or be plowed up. In principle, this makes sense. But in practice, industrial carbon removal is wildly expensive, far too energy and resource intensive, and only removes pathetically small amounts of carbon. It’s nowhere near being a viable solution to climate change.
For the foreseeable future, cutting emissions is the most feasible means of addressing climate change. And whatever carbon removal we might eventually develop should only be used to address the final, hard-to-abate emissions left after fossil fuels are phased out. Most of all, carbon removal should *never* be used as a substitute for cutting emissions, or to help delay phasing out fossil fuels.
So why is the federal government doing exactly the opposite — putting big money behind dubious carbon capture projects, in ways that specifically benefit Big Oil and help delay climate action?
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://globalecoguy.org/stop-giving-big-oil-a-carbon-fig-leaf-a6f49a40851b
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
@realTuckFrumper Because #Beelzebub is powerfully attractive to some folks, especially the fallen ones. They suddenly see divinity up dark, puckered tunnels calling to them, the dung smells like roses, irresistible. 😳
@Beckysay if you are not threatened by storm surge maybe better to hold tight? 🤔
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@Huntn00 we’ll stay put unless it gets really bad, but I really don’t know where we would go, it’s supposed to be worse east of us
@realTuckFrumper The perfect Mug For a Shot. I can think of no better. I’m not an advocate of violence, but every time I see that horrid visage, I imagine a large cartoon boxing glove on a stick enter from the side and knock him out of frame. 😘
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Trump Doesn’t Want His Mugshot Taken In Georgia https://www.politicususa.com/2023/08/20/trump-mugshot-georgia.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@glightly@mastodon.social You can also asked why haven’t the sheep made their baaas a roar? Cause we’re sheep? 🫤
@glightly@mastodon.social unfortunately $ rules and the hesitance to tackle this issue for 40 years is because it cost too much for our economic system to handle says the wealthy. How much is it costing us now? And I wonder if the wealthy took the last 40 years to store up enough nuts to weather it versus average people who will take the brunt of it? 🤔
@Beckysay where are you headed?
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Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system.
It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But it's also not nothing.
Elon Musk has not only welcomed Nazis. He's now directly paying them too.
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I love s'mores, but my doctor says I have to eat s'less.
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Republicans Are Coming For Mifepristone https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/republicans-are-coming-mifepristone?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social @mloxton@med-mastodon.com @RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social I’m just looking to have civil conversations. I’m open minded about anarchy, but have difficulty seeing a path to it without a total breakdown and maybe that’s where we’re headed. It has been an energized discussion, but you’re always going to run into people who resist the idea of anarchy as being superior. If we are to make it into the future, especially off the planet. We need to get ourselves organized.
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@mloxton @RD4Anarchy @WolfChristensen @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 I would recommend the work of Dr Robert Sapolsky to discover how "our apeish nature" presents is actually very dependent on culture and how we assign social status. Here's a short documentary on his breakthrough studying a baboon troupe, he also has an entire lecture series available on the Stanford YT channel.
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Incompetence And Corruption Are Still Rewarded In GOP https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/incompetence-and-corruption-are-still?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Pentagon on Tuberville holds: There is no chance of abortion travel policy changing. IOW, fuck you, Tommy Tuberville. https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/pentagon-on-tuberville-holds-there-is-no-chance-of-abortion-travel-policy-changing.html
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On Aug 18, 1889: Georgia Mob Lynches Black Man and Leaves Him Hanging to Terrorize Black Community http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/aug/18
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It’s the fucking guns! #MomsDemandAction #GSU2023
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#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
