• wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Ha that’s actually a lot higher than I’d have guessed. The Times’s centering of personal vehicles in their explanation both exaggerates the direct impact of this project, and perpetuates the narrative of climate change being a crisis of people’s personal habits.

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      1 year ago

      And they’re 100% going to use this as an excuse to not scale back the burning of fossil fuels in the slightest. Because they’ll try literally anything else before going after capital.

      Edit: wait nvm, they already directly said that lmao

      Oil and gas companies lobbied for the direct air capture money to be included in the law, arguing that the world could continue to burn fossil fuels if it had a way to clean up their planet-warming pollution.

      dammit where’s our guillotine emojis when you need them