The whole island of Sicily covered by wildfires tonight. It's a catastrophe. Here is a satellite image.
The whole island of Sicily covered by wildfires tonight. It's a catastrophe. Here is a satellite image.
Sicily - which has already been brought to its knees by a prolonged heatwave - is battling wildfires that are threatening towns and cities across the island.
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And there are a plethora of ways to generate electricity cleanly. Nuclear, wind, solar, hydro. You know who has lobbied against these heavily? The oil and gas and coal industries, because it would hurt their profits if we used clean energy. Coal and natural gas account for 98% of the emissions from electricity generation in the US.
You know another major contributor to emissions? Transportation. Having efficient mass public transportation would eliminate a huge amount of emissions, and we would have more walkable cities with a healthier population. You know who has lobbied against that for decades? The auto industry because it would hurt profits if people didn’t need to buy a car to get anywhere.
Chevron, BP, Exxon, and Shell make up 10% of carbon emissions just between those four companies. All lobby heavily against green energy and public transportation because it would hurt profits.
That's because they sell fucking gas dude. Lmao how do you not get this
I swear to God it's a coin flip with you people over whether you'd be on the right side of history or a conservative. Whoever sold you some half-baked idiot meme first gets you forever. Glad it's our side at least.
And they have known about oil and gas being major contributors to climate change and the effects of climate change for nearly 100 years. And have lobbied against things that could have eliminated our need for oil and gas by now because it would hurt profits.
How do you not get this. They have known about climate change for decades and actively work to keep harming the climate because of profit.
Slide those goalposts all over me daddy.
Jesus you're dumb. People are giving you well thought out answers and your responses get further and further from anything resembling a point. We get it, you think capitalism is infallible and socialist bad.
I don't think capitalism is infallible lol