Biden has taken more action on climate than any president. His pitch? It creates jobs
Biden has taken more action on climate than any president. His pitch? It creates jobs
Climate change has been a central focus in Joe Biden's first term. But fossil fuels have also flourished, and meeting the country's climate goals would require even bigger steps in a second term.
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Hundreds of billions towards highways is certainly an action on climate
Not every action has been in the right direction, but on balance, the bulk have been.
The bulk has been money to highways. Nothing else comes close
Yes, a lot of money is spent on things like repairing highways. "Just don't maintain the bridge" isn't a good move.
Its poison for any effort to curb climate change. The concrete production alone is a major source of greenhouse gases, and its being done to further prioritize the single largest source of emissions in the US, personal vehicles. I cant think of a more effective thing to spend money on if the goal is to accelerate climate change.
Which is why the federal government is trying to buy concrete made in different ways that don't cause those emissions.
It's not at full scale yet, and won't be for some years. but it's how you actually solve that kind of problem without making peoples' lives worse.
This shit is like clean coal. Its not a thing, concrete production involves releasing the co2 from calcium carbonate, not even mentioning the heating and fuel requirements that go into that process. These highways are going to be built with conventional concrete.
The problem hasn't been "you can't do it" but "architects and engineers don't have enough experience with it to trust it, so they don't use it" — a federal government purchasing program can fix that.
You literally cant do it, its a chemical reaction that outputs co2. In the same way you cant run a combustion engine without producing co2.
You can use a different chemistry to make a hard substance. There are a ton of options which look good in tests, and pretty much nobody uses them.
But but but Biden bad!1!
Very
Said below an article about the good things Biden did. Yup.
They always say the same thing, some declaration of passing the greatest most stupendous climate legislation of all time. The climate legislation that sold millions of acres of federal land for oil and gas extraction.
Dudes pushed more progression than obama and done it with a hostile senate. Get your head out of your arse and try looking at reality.
The reality is that bill mandated the sale of a lot of federal land specifically for oil and gas extraction, and that US oil production continues to increase with no peak in sight.
There is it again: B b b b Biden bad!1!
You gotta try even harder to say it in a dumb sounding way for it to work