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But lately, Wall Street has taken a new tack by attempting to change public perception about what it can do. Instead, banks are now saying their hands are largely tied when it comes to slowing global warming. Clients and their profits must come first.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Now that's weird

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Both is fine; legal action on its own isn't useful here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anything in court won't be resolved until years after the election. She should do a benefit concert for the Harris campaign to make her position clear and have a meaningful impact.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it took him ripping off Republican donors to get him booted from Congress. They were ok with the fraud up until then.

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

That's utter nonsense; I've seen people have a pretty dramatic impact on a shoestring. Especially at the local level, where simply showing up to comment at municipal government meetings makes a real difference.

The end goal is to eventually constrain the impact the wealthiest have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There are two sets of things you can do:

  1. Work to change the politics to favor collective action in the country you're in. In the US right now, that means getting involved to support a lot of the better Democrats.
  2. Take steps which reduce your impact and enable you to shift community norms around you in that direction. That can mean things like installing a heat pump, putting up solar panels, riding an ebike to work on a seasonal basis, or the likes.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

About the only thing that's sure in life: it eventually ends.

But that's not a useful way of looking at stewardship problems like climate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Sea level has been rising for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The ones actually being used in California for grid storage are iron chemistries; so far as I'm aware, the sodium-ion ones are only being used in China at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

With ships, they're talking about sulfate aerosol emissions, rather than greenhouse gas emissions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For a fossil fuel firm, it would look like a binding commitment to leave a large chunk of their reserves in the ground and a plan to end extraction over a couple decades while returning profits to shareholders in the meantime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If it was only blueberries, it wouldn't be a big deal. The problem is that it's going to be every crop

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