• Zacpod@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’d prefer we not sell any oil. Shit is killing the planet.
    But I’d rather sell to China than the US at this point. Trump can fuck right off with his bullshit.

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      3 days ago

      We’re slowly getting there. Unfortunately our ship is a large one to turn, but if you think about it, we’re quite quick lately. The combustion age seems like it’ll be over in about ql1/20th the time of the Bronze Age. But, yes, aware the Bronze Age didn’t actively destroy our liveable environment.

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        2 days ago

        We can mark human caused excess carbon emissions starting in the bronze age, thanks to polar ice cores. They just were like 0.0000001% of what we are producing today. If we had 8 billion bronze age humans, the world would be completely deforested, but the emissions might be a bit lower.

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        3 days ago

        Yeah I believe recently for the first time more renewables powered the US grid (over a month) than fossil fuels.

        The only thing stopping that progress is the utter destruction of world trade, and well, the US is trying their damndest to do that.