the point is that its a first step

america cannot institute real change without the voting base becoming aware of the actual danger involved with inaction

also its important for leverage in international conferences

back in the 2015 paris conference, india's big issue leading into it, and still is, was "american citizens are burning 34x more carbon than we do, so why should we be forced to restrict our usage?"

"especially when we're underdeveloped"

>You can't do it without being thorn apart by other superpowers.

you can actually

think about it

the future of energy is obviously in green tech

and if your companies hold the patents and produce/export that tech to the world

*you will have significant economic power*

This is like capitalism going into communism vs going commie right now. Fossils are the economic vehicle to go nuclear. WIthout fossils you don't have a proper transition and your economy is fucked.

You just can't afford this transition without fossils. So what do you do? Burn em all!

Now imagine that you burn all your fossils and the planet is so hot that China can't burn theirs, so they are in position that they have to make this uncomfortable leap, but you don't.

wait what

you literally want to accelerate the burning of fossil fuels?

because you think it leads to more power?

I am saying that it's attractive to all superpowers.

but its not?

china have already started making massive investments into renewables

if florida going underwater is attractive for america, then the world is *literally* fucked

Maybe this is what they will go for to screw over Russia's export of fossils. That's a complicated thing.

power comes with economic hegemony, and the key to economic hegemony in the coming decades is green tech exports

they dont have to burn the world to screw russia

russia BENEFITS from climate change

it would be handing the world to russia *on a platter* to burn up the world

Well, Russia would benefit from getting more livable territory, which is in excess even now. How would it benefit otherwise?

Russia lives on export of fossils. It has nothing else.

russia gets to use the arctic

for shipping

mining/oil

but also they get more farmland

theyll get loads of immigrants to fill up their capacities too

As far as I remember, farmlands are worthless and oil is a fossil.

so they would quite literally become a superpower

whereas right now

theyre down towards the bottom of the "great powers" list

how can farmland be worthless in an era of perpetual food and water crises?

the whole issue with climate change is the terrible damage it will do to food production worldwide

creating shortages everywhere

Looking forward to 2030, I guess.

they are?