Comment on Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conservatives parroting fossil fuel propaganda):

  • it only makes sense in small countries, we’re too big
  • it’s only a science fair experiment
  • hail storm right?! Haw haw haw stupid scientists
  • it’ll never make a realistic amount of energy

  China:

  Just does the thing

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    China does both. They have also heavily expanded their coal usage

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Arguements I’ve heard from conservatives on the street usually amount to, "ThaT

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s like the conspiracy mind, one small idea and it either makes or breaks everything.

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• Sunshine@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They always say anything “good is impossible”

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• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting to note that this is being spearheaded by lower-income developing nations.

  There were those on the left who were worried that the phase out of fossil fuels would be like the developed nations pulling the ladder up behind themselves. But with the way things are going now countries in the global south may actually end up leapfrogging the imperial core, as they build out cleaner and more advanced infrastructure.

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  • troed@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This had always been a faulty line of thinking by those who claim that the less-developed world would start to use as many resources as the developed world already had.

    Like, no. Why would the bury copperlines all over the place instead of just going mobile directly. Rinse and repeat for everything else - like using solar instead of coal.

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  • Sunshine@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, with people stupidly voting against climate action in Canada, US and Europe.

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every right winger today: lies!

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every right winger tomorrow: “But think of all the diesel trucks that have to drive and service the wind turbines!” (an actual thing I’ve heard)

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    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yes, also ‘wind turbines need oil lubricant’ - checkmate environmentalists.

      Never mind that they use a tiny fraction of the fossil fuels of a gas or coal plant.

      ‘Any step towards reducing fossil fuels is completely pointless if it uses even a tiny shred of fossil fuels’ is some deeply stupid logic that they keep falling back on.

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      • Sunshine@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Vegans get told this all the time.

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