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See? This is why I'm a so called "climate doomer."

1) Because fixing the climate requires reducing anti-Black racism, and letting Black folk in the US vote, but the US just does not want to do that. There is no viable path to making progress on climate change without reducing anti-Black racism. None.

2) Because so many people will see headlines like this, and not even recognize the problem with it. China is doing the right thing! But we frame that as a negative.

dw.com/en/from-solar-to-evs-ho

Deutsche Welle · From solar to EVs: How China is overproducing green techBy Nik Martin

The US has politicians that want to make the exact same subsidy decisions that China did. The silly part: It's not even an *increase* in subsidies, or a cost to the economy, or an increase in taxes. It's just a *change* in what we subsidize, and it boosts the economy, and taxes can stay the same, and in some cases, decrease.

The US has those politicians, and Black people try to vote for them. Try, but fail. 🤷🏿‍♂️

The most effective "climate protest," is registering Black people in the US to vote.

I'm not saying don't protest for the climate. I'll never tell people not to protest.

I'm just saying, it's silly to vote for the wrong politicians, dudes who literally own coal mines, and want coal to increase, but then kayak up to their yacht and beg them not to do that.

I'm just saying, voting for the wrong people, then throwing soup on paintings, is kinda silly.

80% of people already want faster progress on climate change. Protesting to push that to 90% isn't going to change anything.

There are fewer than 50 people standing firmly in the way of *the entire world* making faster progress on climate change. All of these 50 people are US citizens. All of them are politicians. They are the president, a few governors, but most of them are senators and representatives.

No one else matters. No one.

You cannot change the minds of these politicians. It's silly to think that you can. They. Don't. Care.

But you can change these politicians, to get different minds making decisions. 👍🏿

@mekkaokereke

Silly?

We are down to two choices, Republicans or Democrats, for the most part in almost every choice at every post in November.

Will Trump will be a more logical choice, as opposed to President Biden?

Yes, I agree it would be great if America had more than 2 parties. But it does not. Voting for a third party candidate is withholding votes from Democrats.

There are many Democratic politicians who understand the urgency needed. Work with them, and still try to convince others.

Alex Keane

@Ultraverified @mekkaokereke I don't think the point is "withhold votes from Dems" so much as get as informed with your friends earlier in the process where you have more than one Democrat to pick from in a primary.

@squishymage42
And in some states, it could be worthy to vote in the Republican primary even if you are not going to vote for them in the General.
@Ultraverified @mekkaokereke