Fair point. I guess this is just me voicing my frustrations on how so many people in the states just don’t really give a shit about things unless they are directly impacted.
As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] 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 reality is the United States is already dominant. The country is expected to produce 13.2 million barrels of oil per day on average this year — millions of barrels more than Saudi Arabia or Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/
The slightly-lesser evil is still omnicidally evil.
They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can't easily just say no.
They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.
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carl_dungeon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
That’s not all it would threaten.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 1y
Fore sure — but this is a climate community, so I'm talking about that.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Sorry, I was being glib- but in all seriousness, he threatens climate on a much larger scale too. He wants to dismantle the EPA.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
Yes, I've been posting about the broader threat too.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I don't get the innuendo
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
He’s a fundamental threat to the planet, democracy, parks, our kids, women, etc etc etc.
YeetPics@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
North Carolina has never needed to worry about global warming, it's just a liberal hoax anyway.
The mountains surely didn't flood last month, so they should be fine.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Oh wow good thing the other 49 states and the rest of the world are gonna be ok though
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org · 5 pts · 1y
Stories like this about specific areas help it be personal for people. It’s good to share, even though we know it’s not the whole problem.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
Localized stories tell people that it matters for them. That's important when you have a potential swing state.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Fair point. I guess this is just me voicing my frustrations on how so many people in the states just don’t really give a shit about things unless they are directly impacted.
Jack@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 1y
The slightly-lesser evil is still omnicidally evil.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y
They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can't easily just say no.
They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.
numerical non-graph form of the data is here
derek@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
I've never seen this chart. What a story!
silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, there has been no press coverage of it whatsoever; there's one substack post showing a year-old version of it.