Nice to have the evidence backing it up, but I imagine the reaction of every millennial that's been gaming since they could speak is "no shit, mate".

They finally voted the conservative fossil fuel shills out of office and now there's a flood of environmental laws going through. And all it took was devastating wildfires and huge reductions in wildlife populations.

See what happens when you vote out conservatives? Things get better. It's not a coincidence.

People being allowed to live as they wish without being told who to be by everyone around them, imagine that.

Hahah what absolute bollocks. I think the energy crisis might have been caused by a certain nation deciding to start a certain invasion, no? Followed by that free market conservatives love so much enabling massive price gouging? You know there's no actual shortage of supply right?

Oh hang on, you're whingeing about "globalism", so I'm gonna guess you haven't got the best grasp of the European energy market.

Water full of shit for the next 30 years, let's not go giving the fuckin' Tories any credit on that one. Or are they planning on sea level rises to take care of that requirement?

Unfortunately, they only say that as a reflexive defence when it works in their favour, or abuses happen. When it works against them, they'll demand boycotts and protectionist laws. There's already laws going on the books in some states to make it harder to sell EVs, for example. The UK government wanted to bloody ban onshore wind and solar!

Cool, can we get green lobbying groups now? Seems to be the only way to get the oil industry to fuck all the way off.

> Positive in that it ultimately means petro companies have given up on overtly fighting change and are now preparing to weather it.

I think that's certainly the case for more than a few of them. One of the better EV charger networks in the UK is run by BP of all people. That's a sign to me that they're at least looking for what comes next, even if they're dragging their feet.

>It's more likely to do with new projects just not being a good investment anymore.

That in itself is pretty great?

Germany just dropped $180 billion on renewables. They also already produce 45% of their power from renewables, about twice what the USA does.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-sets-renewable-power-record-2022-track-2030-target

You're a conservative American. The article is about Australia. Your lack of effort in even the most basic comprehension of the topic may explain the first one, TBH.

Damn, CBS coming in here with the Reddit support.

I didn't realise hydrogen-electric power trains were so far along, honestly - though it makes sense considering they've existed in cars for years.

Pretty much on form for Peterson then. It's like the Ezra Levant rule - if he disagrees with you, you're right.

Unfortunately, EV conversion of a chassis designed for a gas tank and ICE engine usually results in a vastly inferior experience to a car designed to be EV from the ground up.

Mazda did this same shit, seems to be a Japanese thing. They dragged their feet on EVs for years until many countries made it clear the death of ICE cars was inevitable. After that, they pushed out the MX-30, an ICE-chassis conversion and colossal piece of shit that's at least 10 years behind the rest of the EV market. 100 mile range in a 2022 SUV. Properly pathetic.

Given that emissions are set to peak in the next few years and are in fact decreasing in most developed areas (at admittedly very differing rates), not necessarily.

Ain't wrong. The number of people I know who have become (irritatingly competitive) amateur history nerds because of Sabaton is not zero.

One of those "uplifting" stories that's people trying to get along in a country the Tories have brought to its fucking knees. Good to see decent people, can't believe we have to put up with this shit for at least another year (the Tories are hard at work trying to rig that election too). Even then, FPTP means we're gonna end up with Tories Lite.

Current US healthcare spending - per year - is over 4 trillion dollars.

You were saying?

The same as it was before plastic? I thought the weird little wooden chippie fork thing was a UK icon.

There wasn't also a trillion-dollar industry willing to spend decades propagandising against fixing it.

Dang, the conspiracy chuds are out in force tonight.

This is the Internet. Whenever there's progress, you get two camps:

1. Progress is bad, actually!

2. Recognising progress is bad, actually!

This dude's post history is Extra Fucking Yikes. Full-on Q-Anon crazy-hole bullshit. Believes the bullshit about soy, which then goes hand-in-hand with screeching about trans people, and then all the "I'm not, you are" lies about Biden to try and deflect from what an utter looney their chosen fascist saviour is.

Put it this way: he's an Andrew Tate defender.

Not 5% of garbage, 5% of electricity generation categorised as renewable. Did you not read the reasoning I posted as to why it's done? Let's say you get your way and that's made illegal - cool, now it rots, creates methane and emits *more*.

It's different to bringing methane out of the ground and burning that - this is methane that is naturally occurring at the surface and would be released anyway.