Thread by @homemadeguitars

If the President actually gave a fying fluck about climate change, ver 927.
If the President wanted to reduce emissions today, he would explain to the people the necessity of doing the following:
Intentionally induce a global recession or depression.

2. That the President does not want to reduce emissions today is demonstrably true.
The President has told us, among other things, that by 2030, half of all new cars will be electric.
Leaving aside the energy sources of electric generation, 2030 and Now are different.
Much.

3. The President has also said that by 2050, we will get 50% of our electricity from solar panels.
Leaving aside the energy budget for building and installing those solar panels, 2050 is, again, significantly different than Now.
He has exactly zero interest in reducing emissions.

4. What he wants to do is create jobs. Specifically, he wants to create jobs a male human being with a high school diploma can do, and get paid well for doing it.
The reason he wants to do this is in the hopes those male human beings won't launch a street war.
Which, I admit...

5. But we can't create those jobs by increasing emissions today. I mean we can, but the results will be ugly, uglier than last year, and we'll see them next year and every year, worse and worse.
We watch each disaster as though it was unique unto itself, and as though it ended.

6. Exactly none of the destruction Ida did is in the news today.
All done, all over, what's new?
Louisiana is still massively broken. So are parts of New York and New Jersey.
So, for that matter, are parts of Houston from Harvey.
Paradise, CA, is still burned down.

7. Every year, increasing parts of the world are becoming unusable by developed societies.
In response, educated people say, "It's overpopulation."
Republicans say, "We'll fix that for you. Virus, or bullet?"
10,000 Haitians live under a bridge in Texas.
Half our new cars... 2030

8. The proposal to build (by reasonable reporting) 110 billion dollars worth of new and improved highways and bridges is nothing less than a crime against humanity.
I'm tired of trying to tell people how we make concrete and steel. I have come to the conclusion that nobody

9. in the entire Democratic Party except me has ever looked out the car window at the bulldozing and Earthmoving required to build just one stinking interchange in one stinking city.
The fact that virtually the entire party supports this - please, don't *anybody* try to tell me

10. that you want to see emissions fall in the next 20 years.
Just don't.
It's too disgusting.
Nobody who wants to see emissions fall in this decade, who has the foggiest notion of what emissions are or where they come from, could possibly support highway construction. Not any.

11. "Oh, but look, part of the concrete and steel is going to be installed to build electric car charging stations where the petroleum industry can sell you the electricity they generated with natural gas and coal!"
Oh. Fucking. Goodie.
In 20 or 30 years.

12. How's your sunsets look? Are they really deep red, dull, darkish?
Yeah, the West is on fire.
It used to be news, but if we talked too much about it people might get dubious about all these emissions reductions in 10 or 20 years.
And you know what's worse?
They're lying.

13. Those emissions reductions are never coming, and they know it.

14. It's a matter of scale.
This thing they're promising you can never be built.
Sure it works.
These work too. Rubber bands can power airplanes, and everybody knows it.
But an A-380 can takeoff at over a million pounds.
Real pounds.
Over a million.
Not on a rubber band.
Or solar

15. It is known and agreed that economic growth and emissions track so nearly parallel as to create a strong suspicion of interlocking cause and effect.
We can slow the entire economy.

16. A 55 mph speed limit would reduce emissions immediately, on the first day it was enforced.
"But people won't do that."
OK, I got that.
Everyone quit claiming to be concerned about the climate.
Because it is demonstrably false.
And the people we pay to keep us informed?
Rip.

17. All this crap is simple, easily proven, widely known.
We look at this question: which do we concern ourselves with, the climate or the economy?
And we say, The economy.
OK. I think we ought to have that conversation. Honestly. "Well, fuck the climate, we're going for jobs."

18. Every economist alive knows how to reduce energy throughput.
Energy is emissions.
Construction is emissions.
Paving is emissions.
Manufacturing is emissions.
Speed is energy.
Energy is emissions.
So, I understand what we're doing. I'm just pissed off at being lied to about it