As White House officials weigh how much to give in to his demands, rift grows between president and senator from West Virginia
It’s worth leaving a comment to let the Biden Administration know that you want the greenhouse gas reduction measures in the Inflation Reduction Act preserved
This isn’t a project where a single example of a courageous politician suddenly solves everything. It’s one where winning is a multi-decade project, so to get there we need to change the incentives so that even middling cowardly politicians will do the right thing.
Both the Environmental Voter Procject and the DSA are doing that though conflict expansion (to bring in people who weren’t previously involved) and shifting the Overton Window (to make the unthinkable possible)
Correct. It’s one where hundreds of cowardly politicians (and unaccountable unelected officials) too focused on their own wealth and power (and on not upsetting the status quo that’s so lucrative to them) to ever help regular people.
It’s also one where tens of millions of gaslighted and gaslighting regular people make up all kinds of excuses for the hundreds of cowards no matter what they do or don’t do, forever.
It’s also late in my time zone and I’ve frankly had enough of today, so I’m gonna head to bed. Sweet dreams about a better and more honest world when you get that far.
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The silver lining of ecological degradation is that no amount of political posturing or businesses (ignorance) greenwashing will prevent the climate from deteriorating.
The planet’s biosphere is the ultimate “authority”, the ultimate power. As such, it’s the ultimate “judgement” regarding how human cultures can, & can not, survive.
The planet is, what it objectively is. Ecological limiting factors are the ultimate long-term regulators.
Nature finds a way
Complaining about the problem doesn’t do anything. What does something is changing the incentives that politicians face; that means giving them both a carrot (the opportunity to earn votes) and a stick (in the form of credible negative consequences) for corruption, which has completely broken down in that it’s well-neigh impossible to prosecute any Republican unless they do something so extreme as to attempt a coup.
I’ve been working on the carrot because it’s a key part of the process, and will continue to do so.