Alternatively people here may have realized the techno fascism and adolescent sci-fi fantasies played an unfortunate role in bringing the nation to where it is today.
And the Obama administration really just talked about it. It was under his administration that the US shale oil extraction really started heating up.
The problem is the only solution to climate change is keeping oil in the ground. There are other things that can be done to make a zero emissions transition less painful, but oil (and all other fossil fuels) need to start staying in the ground.
During the Obama administration is when we started to see a dramatic increase in US oil production [0]. The US hegemony is oil powered and founded on the petro-dollar. There's no way US policy can be aligned with anything remotely resembling a path towards a sustainable energy environment.
No, it just got boring. There have been massive renewable buildouts since then, as a direct consequence of those policies. No matter how much trump hates it, the economic scales have already tipped.
The point is that renewable buildouts don't help. ONLY permanently preventing exports in oil producing countries helps. Not temporary reductions. Stopping exports entirely before the oil is dug up. Everything else might be nice in it's own right, but doesn't change the global warming calculation much at all.
Which effectively means that renewable deployment in the west might still be a good idea, but not because it supposedly slows or stops global warming.
Fox News and Trump still routinely say it's a hoax. And their devotees repeat that line in one breath, and in the next breath say, "wow, we just set a new high temp record in January!"
A sucker is born every minute, and I personally don't think it's great to create more effective channels for funneling money from suckers to corrupt politicians.
And how many will not?
For mist people it’s just a job to get money, they will put exactly as much effort in it as is necessary to produce an acceptable result
This is the kind of brainrot that lets people like Trump get into power in the first place. Removing all agency from the American people by pretending that "both sides are the same". It's just pathetic.
You have built yourself a safe little cocoon, protected from the messy imperfect reality of the world, where sometimes you have to make compromises and you don't always get what you want.
