It’s obvious that a second Trump administration will be worse in almost every conceivable way from what a Harris administration might have been.
But let's not fool ourselves into believing that a Harris victory would have been *good* for our climate and environment. We've been going in the wrong direction for at least 20 years under Presidents from both parties — and there's no reason to think that Kamala Harris would have charted a different course.
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When it comes to our climate and environment, we can't blame either the Democrats or the Republicans. We have to blame both. We have to blame capitalism.
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Bread and Circuses
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From the Washington Post…
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The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. The unplanned fossil fuel boom reflects an uncomfortable truth for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris: It is difficult for any president to stop the spigot of U.S. oil production, a leading driver of both the economy and climate change.
“If you were to show someone who came from Mars the line of U.S. oil and gas production over the last 15 years, they probably would not be able to tell whether a Republican or Democrat was in the White House,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
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Bread and Circuses
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Here’s Barack Obama, speaking in 2012...
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“My administration has approved dozens of new oil and gas pipelines over the last three years. And as long as I’m President, we’re going to keep on encouraging oil development and infrastructure.
“Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. Over the last three years, I’ve directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states.
“We’re opening up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources offshore. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. We’ve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.”
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As I said above, when it comes to our climate and environment, we can't blame either the Democrats or the Republicans. We have to blame both. We have to blame capitalism.
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Remarks by the President on American-Made Energy
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in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Brett Ritter
in reply to Robert Taylor • • •@allynkhine I voted Harris because dying slowly is better than dying quickly. It is worthwhile to buy time, but we can't make that the end goal.
We can both recognize that Trump is awful, is worse in the short term AND strive to get an actual better long term.
You talk of "the choice", and I agree about THAT choice. But we had and have OTHER choices to make too. These aren't conflicting positions.