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Um, I think we all just won | Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth
(billmckibben.substack.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Compromise cannidates don't work. They let the country go right with no benefit. You know which cannidate actually got lots of crossover votes from Republicans? Bernie Sanders
Sanders had the support of about 1/3 of the Democrats. You can't get somebody like that to actually be the nominee unless you get the rest of the Democrats to support their policies.
he got screwed over by the party, twice. primary elections explicitly aren't free and fair, legally
If he had a majority of Democratic primary voters behind him, that wouldn't have mattered so much. The reason he was leading was that the moderates were split across many candidates.