My favorite is I will believe that you care when commercial air travel is banned.
We can't even make Bill Gates stop flying around in a private jet. The problem of climate change denial is not claiming it doesn't exist, its believing we can stop it without any immediate changes painful to anyone... except coal miners.
Actually they don't. Because the people you are talking about don't have access to fossil fuels either because of cost or supply. Realistically, they are at least as much a pipe dream as solar panels. In fact, in most of those places energy from the sun is cheap and readily available compared to fossil fuels. So harnessing that energy will have far less environmental impact than trying to deliver fossil fuels.
Jobs and growth are bad for the environment?
Yes. Why do you even need to ask something this blatantly obvious?
Jobs are not inherently bad for the environment. Making beds doesn't cause global warming. Neither does planting trees.
Because auto's produced more. You are displaying a basic ignorance of statistical percentages.
Your attempt to equate all politicians is facile and weak, just like Trump's mind.
I think its your trust in your favorite political celebrities that is facile and weak. Not really any different than people who want to believe Trump. The problem with Trump as President isn't his character, his mind or his lies, its his policies and actions. The rest is just like discussing Taylor Swift or the Kardashians.
We can make rules on how a nuclear powered ship operates.
Who is going to enforce those rules if the US violates them?
If you want to make silly intellectual arguments, solar power and fossil fuel are both charged by nuclear fission. Its just a long way away
Lets be clear the real problem with nuclear power is that it always takes longer to build, costs more and is less reliable than planned. As a solution to our IMMEDIATE problem it is just a distraction. Its future use is being used to prop up industries that rely on unlimited sources of power, like AI. The alternative to nuclear isn't solar or wind. Its conservation. But there is no money to be made
It's relevant in that you cannot trust anything he says
You can trust what Trump says to the extent it serves his interests. Which is true for every politician.
the carbon emissions of manufacture and operation of the new EV are quite rapidly dwarfed by the carbon emissions from the continued operation of the existing ICE vehicle.
Buying a new EV doesn't take an ICE vehicle off the road. It just makes it available for someone else to use.So there is no reduction in emissions to offset the emissions from the manufacture and operation of the new EV.
Non-binding schmoozing by diplomats is just that and nothing more.
You don't know what you are talking about. But if you were right, then the Russians have every reason to assume NATO military support for Ukraine is a prelude to directly attacking Russia as soon as they have the ability. And there are no assurances to the contrary that they should pay any attention to.
campaigned in that language promising to implement the Minsk accords and bring peace.
He campaigned on a peace agenda, but he opposed the Minsk accords. That, combined with his celebrity, made him acceptable to the Ukrainian nationalists who controlled the government.
It's stupid to think that makes it okay
No, what's stupid is thinking it has any importance. I don't care whether Trump lies. It just means I can't trust what he says. I do care about the stuff he is doing. The "he's a liar" stuff is just part of the celebrity contest. That its somehow important how attractive Trump's personal character is. Its not except to the extent it effects what he does.
Income tax for this income
Once again you are limiting the discussion to the taxes the rich pay and ignoring the taxes they don't pay. There is a 13% tax on wages under $100,000. Its not applied to other sources of income. And its not applied to wages over $100,000. Which means people who work for a living pay it on all the money they need to live on and the rich who live off their assets don't pay it at all.
In some places, heroin is available on prescription
Not in the United States.
elites have run America for a long time
I think there is an inevitablity to that isn't there. The definition of elites is that they are the ones that run things. I think the problem is we have a very very narrow and parochial elite.
MAGAs send this message that they are different somehow, but all they do is divide people such that they elites stay in power.
I think that is right. People are unhappy with the way things are and MAGA promised change. Its important to remember Trump got votes from less than a third of the eligible voters. The biggest group didn't vote for either candidate.
There is a reason for that. You can run through a list of things that are most important to our lives and which bathroom transvestites use is nowhere on it. Frankly, neither is people sneaking across the border to make beds and mow lawns. Secure retirement, good quality health care at a reasonable cost, not getting trapped in debt to get an education or pay medical bills, affordable housing, good wages, a tax system that doesn't reward the rich, safe streets, clean air, healthy food
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde
