Absolute ghoul.
It’s so silly. Even if you don’t understand the science of climate change (which isn’t that fucking hard to understand) you can definitely understand this;
- Solar PV + Battery: ~2.0–2.7 USD/W (2.4~ $/kW)
- Solar PV standalone: ~1.33–2.74 USD/W
- Wind (onshore): ~1.46–5.9 USD/W
- Hydro: ~3.0–5.9 USD/W
- Coal: ~3.1–5.5 USD/W
- Natural Gas (combined cycle): ~1.06–1.2 USD/W
- Oil/peakers (simple turbines): ~0.8–2.6 USD/W
- Nuclear: ~6.7–8.0 USD/W
Even with batteries solar has the greatest fricken ROI in this list at the cheapest cost.
Fossil fuels are finite. After you pay back your solar panel capex your opex is barely anything and for the next 20-30 you have free fucking energy.
Jeebus, even if you don’t give a shit about the environment picking anything but renewables is like the dumbest decision you can use your money on.
it’s a smart decision if you’re worried about giving china leverage
That’s the weirdest thing about it. “Green” can be, and is profitable. Why pass up the opportunity to be the front-runners in what could be the new age of wealth?
with late stage capitalism, you get better ROI sabotaging the competition and just generally smashing shit around you. america is filled to the brim with disaster capitalists and republicans being in power is their green-light to finally take their masks off
Apparently conservatives are not only shit businessmen but their also dumb fucks who will believe anything you tell em as long as you throw in some racist platitudes
Conservative governments in Western democracies have always tanked the economy. Always.
It may become cheaper once they cut all the various safety and environmental regulations
Can we gut Jeff?
Get any an all relatives you have to stop using Amazon, if they do.
My mom is off the grid and she has me order things through Amazon for her occasionally.
Am gonna have to talk to her and see if I can get the items she likes, from different sources.
Even if you do stop using Amazon directly, AWS is their real money maker and still runs an obscene amount of the internet.
We should probably boycott the Internet.
Boycotts are notoriously ineffective, especially if they aren’t organized, especially if they don’t have a set goal. Boycott all you like but don’t waste your valuable energy you could be spending organizing, getting involved in local advocacy, joining/building a union and preparing for the revolution - it’s coming sooner or later
Oh yeah… but NGL, it’s the little actions that can snowball. If I can get mom to get her friends groups to move away from Amazon (she only found the items she likes by hearing from a friend that uses Amazon) and opt for secondary sources… I’ll start with that and for sure, am already networking with friends and businesses locally to get people engaged in stopping this goose-stepping march into the 4th Reich we’re on…
Wow, 30%
Worth repeating that medias should be owned by their journalists, and financed by giving citizens an allocation that they’ll distribute between medias as they see fit, like a vote.
The thing is that it’s not a problem of solutions but of will, they want to control us, otherwise they’d improve the current system.I just wonder when threadiverse will autoblock WaPo slop.
Like the NYT, they weren’t that reliable on it either way.
In general, if journalists took climate change seriously, most of media would be about it; most screens would be half about it, with tickers and banners constantly on it. The anti-alarmists are the half-assers who took the air out of it.
A big joke about these mainstream publications is how quickly they’d open their pockets to accept fossil fuel industry native advertisement money. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, The Economist, et al - they’d always have some kind of AEI industry flak or Heartland Institute goober or Saudi stooge pen an Op-Ed about how fossil fuels are inescapable and alternatives don’t work / cost too much / have a secret downside orders of magnitude worse than O&G.
It was the same “We Report, You Decide” bullshit that FOX News played out in big bold letters for their rube base. The fishwrap editions just knew how to play their cards closer to the chest.
They’re already talking about just taking Greenland, and probably Antarctica. Climate change is locked in.
Bezos’s conscience died decades ago
They do buy a lot of electricity generated by wind and solar. They also buy a huge amount generated using fossil fuels. Amazon got kicked out of the Science Based Targets Initiative because they weren’t willing to actually go ahead with getting off of fossil fuels.
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He fired a large chunk of the WaPo staff today. Not clear if what’s left is a viable newspaper
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Can’t wait to watch the Seattle Kraken play at Climate Pledge Arena, which Amazon bestowed that name upon.
It doesn’t help the global warming guys when we’re hitting record colds and snow we haven’t seen in 50 years. And yes I understand the difference between climate and weather. However weather gets referenced when it fits the climate agenda all the time. I’m also not saying our climate isn’t changing. It has consistently changed since whenever it started. How much do cow farts affect it? Forest fires? Volcanic eruptions? I suspect we over estimate our understanding. What if we had fifty dormant volcanoes suddenly come back to life in the next decade? I think it would dwarf our human impacts. I’m old enough to remember when they were predicting a new ice age. I don’t think I’ll see that unless it comes in the form of a nuclear winter, but I just don’t put much stock in predictions anymore. Our local weather girls can’t get it right much beyond 36 hrs.
