So, just Republicans.
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I disagree with him.
"Nobody that is intelligent AND cares about other people" is more accurate.
There are very intelligent people that deny it because they are old and enjoy doing things that exacerbate it. Other intelligent deniers are making tons of money and can afford to weather the problems.
I think the subtext is if you are a climate change denier, you're a moron or a liar.
Or you just want to watch the world burn. Literally.
If you intentionally let climate change have its way while denying it, you're in the liar category.
Big "My life sucked, so all life must suffer!" energy from these people.
Or just "suffer!" Some people start off wrong.
But yeah, I agree for a lot of them.
Rhymes.
Oh so he's going to start running on an anti-capitalist platform and start trying to implement the radical societal changes we'll need to see to stop us further fucking up the planet?
It doesn't matter if you're "smart" enough to see the impact of climate change if you're stupid enough to do nothing about it.
I, too, live in a fucking dream world.
Democrats in a nutshell for sure
The president has a lot less power than you seem to think. Only congress can do anything meaningful about climate change, and the chances of that happening are basically nonexistent.
Honestly, what would be the point of running for president on a climate change platform? Would you believe him? I certainly wouldn't. Would anyone actually believe he could follow through if he tried? No one with a basic understanding of how the government works should. What purpose would that campaign serve beyond getting your hopes up and inevitably making him a liar about something he never had the power to do?
If you want change, vote for the right congressmen and convince others to do the same.
The president could at least push for this, even if he cant implement it.
Theres no excusing that shitheel.
Don't worry, right after he's reelected he'll start a committee to encourage creation of a congressional sub-committee to get to the bottom of this new radical leftist divisionary idea of 'climate change' and propose a committee based on their findings to propose non-binding legislation to be voted on by 2050 only to get shot down by all republicans and whatever number of democrats are needed to ensure none of that ever happens. Mission Accomplished.
“Nobody can deny the impact of climate crises—at least nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore.”
I don’t have the patience to sit through that entire boring video for just one sentence. Anyone wanna give me a time stamp to jump to?
On the desktop version of YouTube, click the three dots to the bottom right of the video and a menu pops up. In that menu, choose 'view transcript' and you can then do a text search of the audio on it. The relevant spot is at 7min 30sec
In terms of what he has done:
- He passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
- Set vehicle fuel economy rules to push a phase-out of gas cars for most uses
- Push through regulations which cut emissions from electric generation by 90%
- Sharply reduce new oil and gas leasing of federal land
What he hasn't done: stop issuing drilling permits. This is because the US courts have generally held that once a lease is issued, the right to drill is a property right, and you'd need to pay the leaseholder to not drill at all.
Thank you very much!