How does everyone buying a brand new car result in decarbonization versus keeping the ones we’ve already expended carbon building and upgrading them when they break? There are 283 million cars on the road in the US and replacing them all is going to generate a metric fuckton of carbon.
Kneecapping decarbonization efforts in the name of “jobs” and “the economy” is just straight up Republican policy. I do not care how many jobs are preserved on my rapidly warming planet.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 months ago
regul@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If you’ll notice he also increased tariffs on solar panels at the same time.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 months ago
Yeah China has been doing the same with solar panels. Funny you bring it up since my wife used to work at a facility that made the ingots and sliced them up. They shut down several years ago since it was impossible to compete with Chinese prices. Hurray for cheap prices right?
regul@lemm.ee 7 months ago
See above where I said I do not give a shit about how many jobs are preserved on my rapidly warming planet.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
But the status quo is more important than *checks notes… climate change! Won’t someone think of the economy! /s
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months ago
I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Because bombing the future into rubble is preferable to burning it into rubble or something I guess.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months ago
Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with