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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We feeling green yet Green voters?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Maybe Dems shouldn't have expanded oil drilling to the highest levels on record while leasing off more BLM than previous administrations, while campaigning on genocide.

The owners of the US finally being honest is no different in effect than them hiding behind lies they never intended to fulfill.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 hours ago

So, the worst people imaginable in every situation. Got it, no, we were expecting that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

“There is no climate crisis and we are not in the midst of an energy transition either,” he said, adding that “the term carbon pollution is outrageous” because all life depended on carbon dioxide.

“There is no such thing as clean energy or dirty energy, all energy sources have impacts on the world both positive and negative,” he added.

Trump is setting up a race between climate change, pandemics, and world war.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago

“the term carbon pollution is outrageous” because all life depended on carbon dioxide.

All life depends on water too. Here, let me hold your head under water for five minutes and show you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

Never trust a guy in a dress shirt coupled with a fleece vest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The comparison of the person proposed for the equivalent position in the European Union is interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Ribera?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Of course it is. They've not (yet) been taken over by billionaire fascists.