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As I see the devastation caused by hurricane Helene I can't help but remember that no country on earth is doing more to intentionally slow progress on the shift to renewables than the United States.🤡

Intentionally. Slow.

Because to us, the problem is that the solar cells are being made by Chinese billionaires instead of by American billionaires, and the EVs are being sold by Chinese billionaires instead of American billionaires. If we can't win, your planet can burn.

We are good people.

1/N

Shout out to everyone that's going to read what I said, and interpret it as that I don't love my country enough. 🙂🙃

They will literally interpret my not wanting Cat 4 and Cat 5 hurricanes to hit the Southeast every year for the next 50 years, as the "anti-American" take, and interpret my wanting US to do common sense things to keep warming under 3 degrees as "unpatriotic."

My life does not improve if we "protect" the US EV market for Cybertrucks that no one wants. At all.

2/N

Shout out to the drama queens that want to pretend that it would be hard to accelerate the shift to solar. It wouldn't be. We're literally putting the brakes on it because it's happening "too fast." We're cutting subsidies because they're working too well. 🙂🙃

What are we doing? True clown behavior. 🤡

abc10.com/article/news/local/c

Ask people being rescued from Helene if the switch to solar is happening too fast.

3/N

"American ingenuity" spent most of the past 10 years investing in monkey jpegs (NFTs) and giant EVs that no one can afford. China invested in, solar cells, battery tech, trains and buses, and affordable EV cars.

I don't know how to tell you this, but our US national capital allocation strategy of "Give most of our innovation budget to anti-democratic, racist, sexist, alt-right guys" doesn't seem to be working out for us. 🤷🏿‍♂️

We pair that with our "throw cans of soup" activism. Silly.

4/N

👴🏻"It's not that simple to change."

Yes it is. You just wake up one day and do better.

👴🏻"It's more complicated than you make it sound."

No it's not.

👴🏻"It's important for US industry to thrive. You can't ignore that."

This one cracks me up. US companies are about to get absolutely cooked in giant industries that matter: Car sales, power generation, battery tech. The green path makes *more* than the "Protect NFT billionaires that hate US democracy anyway" path. QED.

What are we doing?

5/6

👴🏻"People in the path of the hurricane are suffering. Now is not the time to talk about climate change policy..."

Yes it is. Don't "thoughts and prayers" me on climate change.

And besides, I already prayed to my god about it, and he said, "I'm not going to save you. Here's my best offer: I can bless the human race with common sense, a continent full of natural resources (Africa), and like 1 or 2 billion people who can make cheap solar cells and wind turbines for you (🇨🇳 + 🇮🇳). Save yourselves."

The US subsidized the hell out of corn, enabling "innovations in corn growing technology" (real term, not kidding), and then we were like 👴🏻🇺🇸"Oh no, we have too much corn! So. Much. Corn!"

So we started pumping out corn syrup, so we could drink corn, and we convinced cows to eat corn, and we shove corn everywhere we can, and export it, making corn cheap around the world...

So we do understand the concept of cheap solar.

The difference is that the world needs cheap, clean energy, not diabetes.🤷🏿‍♂️

@mekkaokereke This [starting with 2002 farm bill] was a Republican ploy to bail out farmers with socialism but not call it socialism. The farmers who grew too much corn should have failed, but instead we encouraged them and they're also destroying all our topsoil as a consequence.

We have too much corn. We need to stop. No, we do not need corn for PLA plastics. That's just another lie to keep them producing corn.

I corn't take it anymore

edit: you know what else is fun? Are you from a farming community? Go look at how much money the farmers are taking from the government. It's public information. The big farm families where I'm from, always driving new trucks? Millions, literally millions of dollars in handouts.

https://farm.ewg.org/index.php
@JYeo18 @mekkaokereke King Corn is a must watch for anyone reading this thread.