There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.
- in the clean coal dust
Oh yeah!? Well, we caught up to China in fascism, so we can catch up to them in clean energy too!
Don’t worry, America is skillfully avoiding the dust clouds by running in the fully opposite direction, towards irrelevance!
Will America even be around in a decade… Are they gonna have a two state solution?
Realistically it’ll probably be more like a bankruptcy thing and admittedly somewhat like what Trump is doing.
Consider all he’s doing to destroy our industry, science, technology, throw away any global influence and good will, wreck our strong trading position, turn us inward, isolated, xenophobic. Keep people desperate with lost jobs, healthcare, government services. Think how that plays with the $1T in tax cuts for the wealthy, and leaving all our prior debt levels in the dust.
What happens when that all catches up? We forced into austerity measures, high inflation, unending joblessness, military we can’t come close to affording? Tax rates skyrocket and We fight to reclaim those tax cuts for the wealthy.