IMO they would rise hand in hand anyway, because there is money to be made. Biden’s “climate plan” is just about throwing more money at private companies to increase their profits. Even stuff that is directed at the consumer side of things, like EV car subsidies just allows car companies to keep prices higher than they would otherwise be. It is all funneled into private pockets, without even doing the thing that is usually the selling point of these kind of bills under capitalism - lower prices for consumers.

The “Biden climate plan” also enshrined fossil fuels as policy, it includes a provision that for every X of new clean energy, the same amount of fossil fuel permits have to be given out by the US government.

Nothing will fundamentally change

We’re so fucked.

The naked corruption and incompetence of the last couple of administrations in particular has been a real sight to behold. Not to say Obama and Bush and Clinton werent corrupt but the problem seems especially acute now. All of these big spending initiatives just go directly into stock buybacks and deliver exactly zero value to the state. The Treasury might as well do direct deposits into the bank accounts of billionaires at this point.

Working as intended

It’s what the constituents would’ve wanted

Peter

I dont think his opposition to consumption/production makes much sense tbh, it follows if you ship out oil, and then bring plastic thingies, you get hit by consumption of plastic, not production of oil.

But ecocidal part of mining is true