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Biden says global warming topping 1.5 degrees in the next 10 to 20 years is scarier than nuclear war (www.cnbc.com)

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What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants.

What Biden has not done: stop issuing drilling permits or impose export restrictions on fossil fuels. The former has some serious limits because of how the courts treat the right to drill as a property right once you hold a drilling lease, and the latter is simply untested.

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[+] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Relaaaax. We're not going to die. Most likely anyways. Our children tho... hoo boy they might have a bit of a problem on their hands

[–] mosscap@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey so as someone who is 35 and has survived massive flooding and a heat dome, the "its not something we'll have to worry about" line doesn't really make sense when I think about getting old and experiencing things like dementia or limited mobility in a world at 1.75 degrees warming

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hey as someone who is most likely headed for Alzheimer's myself, at least I won't even know I'm living in hell on earth! Silver lining I guess... 😅

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, I'm 25 and we're starting to feel the effect very obviously now. What makes you think it won't be seriously affecting me in my life?

[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It will obviously affect all of us to varying degrees. But we won't all die. Quite a lot will die (a lot of old people and a lot of poor people, as is tradition), but we don't get anywhere by making a Hollywood movie out of it. It's serious enough on it's own.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to believe it would be a problem for our children. But it's happening right now. Wildfires, cyclones, heat waves, lack of water, pandemics... It's happening right now.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh for sure and it seems to be happening a lot faster than even the conservative guesstimates. But I'd bet my bottom dollar that future generations are gonna have it way worse than us if we don't change course big time.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

HAHA, jokes on you, I haven't procreated!

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We're fucked already. The question now is about how much we will be fucked and if we can survive this. See what happened in Hawaï. It happened in Europe too. Cyclones will be a lot more common too. Heat waves are already hitting several times per year in what were temperate places. Agriculture is already suffering, and with it will come famine.

It's important to act now, because things will only get worse and it's bad enough already.