There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.
Worst thing is those in power in the US think they’re actually winning , and the rest of the world (and actually most of the US) is just wrong!
I don’t think they think of it as winning. I don’t think they care.
All they know is that several states have economies dependent on fossil fuel extraction with no other meaningful economic replacement.
Some of them are winning. At this point the game us shifting to an internal fight between domestic oligarchs for power and therefore profit.
Good news everyone. Trump has the answer!
The answer:
Really incredible that this isn’t satire
Is Coalie really Towlie’s West Virginia cousin??
U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition
Uhm? How the fuck does one abandon something they never had??
A lot of early wind, solar, battery, and electric vehicle work was done in the US. The country has steadily lost leadership in all of those due to a lack of political support
It was starting under Biden.
News from 2014?
Oh yeah!? Well, we caught up to China in fascism, so we can catch up to them in clean energy too!
What a central government without oil lobbies does to a country
From the article it seems they do have vested interests in coal.
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Will America even be around in a decade… Are they gonna have a two state solution? Or something like One America, two systems? Hard to say.
No. You can’t split a country along urban/rural lines. Even if you split out the south, the rest would fight to take it back due to all the resources there, especially things like military bases.
That would be bad. I can’t see a scenario where the US crumbles in a decade without global collateral damage.
A silent exit from global superpower would be the best option that involves the least amount of bloodshed
I’d much prefer to see the US split up into separate states, then form a union much like the EU instead of the monolithic eldritch crap they have right now.
That’s sort of what we have now? A federal government that is made up of a union of states…
What we really need is to fix Congress and restore their power.
Republicans have been shifting power from Congress to the executive and judicial branches for the last 50 years. All because they want a king.
Fixing Congress would take a single bill. Namely H.R. 4125, the Equal Voices Act.
Well, that’s the first step. There are more, but H.R. 4125 would be like 70% of it.
Don’t worry, America is skillfully avoiding the dust clouds by running in the fully opposite direction, towards irrelevance!
