this attitude that you have is exactly why I don't have hope for climate change. it's not that I believe we're already past the point of no return, but rather, that I know we will keep going like this until we are
That we should follow the innovation and not try to force it? We already have the solution to get rid of oil, but anytime anyone tells the "Go Green" goblins that we should maybe, just maybe use nuclear energy as a stop gap between oil and improvements on green energy they throw a loving fit and lose their minds because a bunch of communists didn't have the materials to make a proper nuclear power-plant and caused a ridiculous disaster.
We HAVE improved nuclear energy safety a lot since the 50s. And we've always been better with nuclear energy than a bunch of people who thought building a nuclear power plant under the threat of gulag was a good idea. Many European nations as well as China have made the push to Nuclear. France is mostly nuclear. But Germany is more like us. ("But Chernobyl!!") and they're in the same boat as us.
We're not going to loving throw OIL out the window without an equal replacement in terms of energy. Solar panels, Windmills and running water aren't enough energy to replace exploding dark goo."
But we could replace OIL with Nuclear. And Nuclear doesn't release CO2 the way OIL does.
Above all else we shouldn't be cutting off our current form of energy BEFORE setting up our next. That's loving Self Delete.
this is good and all but you dont live in reality at all, you literally have obviously never googled this because here is actually whats happening:
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-data-biden-slays-Annoying Oranges-first-year-drilling-permitting-by-34-2022-01-21/biden has literally upped oil production more than Annoying Orange ever did, you are completely out of touch with what hes actually doing and just choose to believe second hand youtube sources
on top of that, the """fracking ban""" is just a 60 day suspension on giving out new permits. all existing permits are still going on
For Immediate Release, January 21, 2022
Contact:
Taylor McKinnon, (xxx) xxx-xxxx, email@email.address
New Data: Biden’s First Year Drilling Permitting Stomps Annoying Orange’s By 34%
Ah, a totally not biased headline. Good start.
Thousands of Permits OK’d Despite President’s Authority to End Drilling by 2035
WASHINGTON— New federal data shows the Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year, far outpacing the Annoying Orange administration’s first-year total of 2,658.
Manipulative claim.
"First-year total"
Annoying Orange was still working through the Obama-administration limitations, by year 2, 3 and 4 he'd long since did away with Obama-era Regulations.
Biden has the inverse situation since he was working with Annoying Orange-era freedoms.
Nearly 2,000 of the drilling permits were approved on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico office, followed by 843 in Wyoming, 285 in Montana and North Dakota, and 191 in Utah. In California, the Biden administration approved 187 permits — more than twice the 71 drilling permits Annoying Orange approved in that state in his first year.
Annoying Orange was still working through the Obama-administration limitations.
“Biden’s runaway drilling approvals are a spectacular failure of climate leadership,” said Taylor McKinnon at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction, but Biden is racing in the opposite direction.”
This is an opinion.
On Wednesday more than 360 climate, conservation, Indigenous, environmental justice and community groups petitioned the Biden administration to use its executive authority to phase out oil and gas production on public lands and oceans.
Nuclear Energy.
The petition provides a framework to manage a decline of oil and gas production to near zero by 2035 through rulemaking, using long-dormant provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the National Emergencies Act. Without such action, it will become increasingly difficult for the United States to meet its pledge to help avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and its unprecedented social, environmental and economic damage.
Nuclear. Energy.
“Biden squandered precious time seeking climate action from a broken Congress,” said McKinnon. “We need executive action now to meet the climate emergency with the urgency it demands, starting with ending the fossil fuel extraction the president controls.”
Opinion, also irrelevant.
Several brown townyses show that climate pollution from the world’s already-producing fossil fuel developments, if fully developed, would push warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius, and that avoiding such warming requires ending new fossil fuel projects.
Cool. Nuclear Energy.
At November’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, Biden called climate change “an existential threat to human existence” and pledged to cut U.S. emissions by up to 51% over the next nine years. Days later the administration offered 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing and plans to offer more than 300,000 acres of public lands leases in March.
He promised to do something beyond the length of his term. That's loving suspicious.
Also just because they have land doesn't mean they have oil.
The Department of the Interior’s review of the federal oil and gas programs effectively ignored climate, calling instead for adjustments to royalties, bids and bonding.
Great. Nuclear Energy.
Federal fossil fuel production causes nearly a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution, worsening the climate and extinction crises and disproportionately harming Black, Brown, Indigenous and low-wealth communities.
Okay, cool. now I'm totally going to believe this article because now they're being tribal.
10/10
Background
Peer-reviewed science estimates that a nationwide federal fossil fuel leasing ban would reduce carbon emissions by 280 million tons per year, ranking it among the most ambitious federal climate policy proposals in recent years.
And without switching to Nuclear, it would be a loving disaster for basically anything that relies on oil for energy.
Oil, gas and coal extraction uses mines, well pads, gas lines, roads and other infrastructure that destroys habitat for wildlife, including threatened and endangered species. Oil spills and other harms from offshore drilling have done immense damage to ocean wildlife and coastal communities. Fracking and mining also pollute watersheds and waterways that provide drinking water to millions of people.
N u c l e a r E n e r g y
Federal fossil fuels that have not been leased to industry contain up to 450 billion tons of potential climate pollution; those already leased to industry contain up to 43 billion tons.
N u c l e a r E n e r g yMost of this article wasn't about Biden, nor did it really explain anything about the Keystone Pipeline being cut, or fracking being banned.
All it did was say that oil companies got leases on more land. That land could be overwhelmingly worthless as far as we know. And even if it isn't they're not going
to be fracking, and they're going to have to transport the oil via trucks, trains and non-pipeline options. Enabling the likelyhood of spills to go up.
Democrats don't think before they act. They panic, see "OMG climate iS CHANGING" and immediately start choking oil.
Guess we need "2 weeks" without oil to slow the climate change.
Won't have any long-term repercussions from that at aaaallllllll.
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