Emissions have been falling in the US and EU since ~2005 or so, and look to be about to start falling in China, which means that they'll be falling worldwide after this year.
But...they'll likely be falling slowly, rather than rapidly, which is a problem.
At some point, that car won't be cost-effective to repair, and you'll want to replace it. Be a lot better to have strong privacy legislation in place when that happens.
I'm not too surprised by this; the politics of immigration are different in the US, where almost the entire population is immigrants and the descendants of immigrants, and Europe, which didn't have any real history of immigration until quite recently.
There are some very real benefits to allowing significant levels of immigration:
It doesn't take aliens or a true AGI; it takes stopping fossil fuel use, ending deforestation, and phasing out a few trace chemicals. Do that, and we end the rising temperatures
Making that happen is a matter of seizing power from those who profit from the current system of extraction and burning.
This is explicitly about barring kids, who are already US citizens, from being able to attend school because their parents are undocumented.
People aren't doing that because of the way that warmer temperatures are causing megafires in boreal forests.
There's a little bit of history though: the backlash to a similar measure in California resulted in the Republican party becoming a permanent minority in the state legislature.
As in "We haven't cut emissions to zero yet." We can, and will. It's a question of whether we do it quickly enough to preserve a civilization-supporting climate.
But not in a way that financially coerces you to have children, which is what Vance wants
Vance is ideologically flexible. He'll do whatever benefits Thiel, who has paid his bills for years.
Mostly because sending troll content to his staff isn't particularly useful.
Sadly, this one involves burning the testicles of actual living monkeys, and not merely engaging in private pleasures