1/Here is a thread about climate change that's going to make a lot of people mad. Basically, America, on its own, has a LOT power to stop climate change than almost anyone admits.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-14/china-is-the-climate-change-battleground …
The battle to halt climate change was lost in the 1980ies, mostly in the US. That is when we passed the crucial tipping points that now lead to the unstoppable melting of the poles. Perhaps we locked on this trajectory with the industrial revolution; we have very little agency.
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US oil companies (and probably deciders in US politics) fully knew in the 1970ies and 1980ies where we are headed. It must have been terrifying for the people who made the nominal decisions to carry on anyway.
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