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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.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Good news everyone. Trump has the answer!

The answer:

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Really incredible that this isn't satire

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Coalie really Towlie’s West Virginia cousin??

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah. Ok, the Chinese have all that future proof energy but they don't have even one coal based participation award. It's like they are not even trying!!

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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!

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Aren’t they? There’s never been a time for a few can enrichment themselves so much through government, implement the most vile policies through government, ignore consequences, laws, and checks and balances through government. A few highly self-centered individuals are living out their most hateful dreams

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Because idea of winning is different from the rest of sane people.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Some of them are winning. At this point the game us shifting to an internal fight between domestic oligarchs for power and therefore profit.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition

Uhm? How the fuck does one abandon something they never had??

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

It was starting under Biden.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What a central government without oil lobbies does to a country

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They do it because they don't have enough oil and they know it.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From the article it seems they do have vested interests in coal.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

China imports tons of it from australia and others, but doesnt have vast deposits of it or oil.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Will America even be around in a decade... Are they gonna have a two state solution?

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Well, they have an unfair advantage. They actually believe in clean energy.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, America is skillfully avoiding the dust clouds by running in the fully opposite direction, towards irrelevance!

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah!? Well, we caught up to China in fascism, so we can catch up to them in clean energy too!

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

News from 2014?