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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, voting won't save us, not while the interests of oil barons supercede the interests of humanity as a whole.

Biden Administration Approves Huge Alaska Oil Project - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

Biden administration moves ahead with massive Gulf of Mexico drilling ... - CNN https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/29/politics/gulf-of-mexico-drilling-lease-sale-biden-climate/index.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is just voting enough on its own, no, but giving up and not voting or voting for worse candidates can make us go from bad to terrible. Every fraction of a degree of warming matters here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

yes, absolutely, but when both of the choices you're presented with are equally disastrous for the environment, there's nothing you can realistically do by just voting. The superstructure that stands in the way of real, actual change needs to be destroyed.