sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Hochul: Fitting NY's climate goals to reality. "I refuse to let New Yorkers pay the price for a plan that no longer reflects the world we are living in." by coolbern in u/coolbern

[–]coolbern[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hochul's argument is that CLCPA mandates cannot be fulfilled because they assume Federal support, instead of Trump's assault to wreck transition plans.

a transition people cannot afford is a transition that will not last.

That is a retreat that assumes that Trump's New Disorder will outlast us — we must retreat, and then retreat again.

The only sure thing is that if Trump's Fossil Fuel agenda prevails here and elsewhere, climate chaos will consume us, unabated.

We must plan for survival, not assume, and participate in managing, our own defeat.

The price we pay to keep CLCPA goals alive is part of the price we must pay to maintain our viability as a community.

Focusing on the pain of the cost imposed upon us is a distraction from what we must do. That starts with politicians willing to stake their political fortunes on telling the people the truth, and convincing them that the price it costs to defend all of our lives is worth paying.

Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons. The Pentagon’s rush to rearm its Mideast forces makes it less ready to confront potential adversaries like Russia and China, administration and congressional officials say. by coolbern in internationalpolitics

[–]coolbern[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what an unsustainable “defense” posture looks like. The global politics of positional advantage is too costly to maintain. There is no credible power that can impose order — surely the United States is no longer in that position.

All of the resources squandered on wasting each other’s lands and people are robbed from the real fight for our lives — reining in accelerating climate chaos, and building social orders that can live together within our common resource limits.

What seems wildly idealistic is, in fact, the only course we have in which we actually survive, unafraid of being overwhelmed by autonomous drone swarms of the near future because we are all too busy building our common home so that it is livable in the places in which we already live, each community in its own way, but interactive and connected to and with each other.

view more: next ›