“Scientists stunned.” “Words fail.” “No one is safe.” (update)
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Freakish heat waves are causing triple-digit temperatures from Canada to Siberia. Flooding and landslides have killed scores in India and Europe. Out-of-control wildfires are wiping entire communities off the map.
Scientists say these disasters are directly linked to climate change — and that unless we transition off of fossil fuels and zero out our carbon emissions by 2050, the catastrophe will become much, much worse.
So why is Joe Biden — who ran on a platform of science-based action to solve climate change — pushing a plan that could hand $25 billion to the fossil fuel industries cooking the planet?
The bipartisan infrastructure bill supported by the Biden administration has been sold as a down payment on addressing the climate crisis. But many of the... bill’s supposedly “climate-friendly” projects are likely to result in new fossil fuel investment.
If this bill passes, $25 billion that could be spent elsewhere, like on scaling up renewable energy, could go toward unproven technologies pushed by the fossil fuel industry, like “carbon capture,” that could keep us locked in the cycle of extraction for decades to come.
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