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‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

While I agree on the basic economics and even taco can’t hold back time…

  • he can and has slowed down EV adoption
  • he can and has slowed down buildout of renewables, costing thousands of jobs
  • his lack of enforcement certainly means some polluter will pollute more
  • if he succeeds in permanently neutering EPA, we’ll all suffer for a generation
  • he can and has blocked renewables, battery, EV manufacturing in the US
  • he can and has invented automakers to backtrack to yesterdays technology, leaving them with a precarious future unable to compete that will potentially cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and a regional economic base