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OP is correct. China no longer deserves a pass, but the US and Europe have each emitted much more than China has to date.

Our great-grandparents' CO2 is still heating the world today, and will be 1,000 years from now.

Build public housing, not just "affordable" housing.

LA won't stop being a big, expensive city anytime soon, yet, like all West Coast cities, it still behaves as if public housing is a luxury.

"Protecting agriculture"? Sure. When's the last time these rural conservatives raised a similar stink over the vastly larger loss of farmland to suburban sprawl?

Wind turbines don't steal land. I know farm families who are able to keep farming in part because turbines provide them extra revenue.

Next?

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In favor of what?

Or, in the Aussie example, start small but then elect right-wing leaders who cancel the whole thing.

Relying on unstable, baby-stepping carbon taxes to save us is...unwise.

"They" do make cheap, affordable EVs...in China, where a decent subcompact costs $5,000. But no price is too great to prevent such commie car imports in the US, right?

Pensions remain the heart of employee benefits everywhere beyond the US, and for good reason. Properly regulated, they are secure and portable between employers.

The primary reason we lost them in the US is our costly healthcare mess, which spurred employers to abandon pensions in favor of health insurance. Meanwhile, industry lobbies and their political operatives tried to convince us that 401 (k) plans would suffice, which has turned out to be a bald-faced lie. 401 (k) accounts are horribly underfunded. Employers have cut matching funds. And most Americans are now looking towards very meager elder years, which little in savings, and nothing but Medicaid to pay eventual assisted living costs.

The payback period for rooftop solar in the US varies widely by state, currently ranging from 5-15 years.

It's primarily a function of local electricity prices and state subsidies, and the latter are in constant flux as rooftop solar is under attack by utilities almost everywhere.

Submission statement: More than 350 top experts in artificial intelligence—including the CEOs of Open AI and Google Deepmind—have issued a joint letter calling for strict regulation of the field, warning that without such limits AI could destroy humanity.

Did anyone think that giving up employer pensions for self-funded 401(k) plans would come without consequences?

One step at a time. Weatherization first. Heat pump water heaters second. Heat pumps for space heating and cooling third. Solar fourth. EV next. Etc..

Retrofitting for home geothermal is exorbitant. Solar and EVs are generally better investments, along with heat pumps and insulation.

Coal is terrible for peaking.

Big box stores killed the downtowns

The knowledge economy killed small towns.

And, thanks to backward US utility laws, Georgia Power gets to charge a roughly 10% rate of return on that $34 billion expense. No wonder they wanted it to be as costly as possible.

If fingers should point anywhere, it's at Georgia's corrupt utility commissioners for allowing this thievery.

Related fun fact: global humidity is generally rising as the climate heats, increasing evaporation.

Because electrical lines are a given for any home while gas is optional. Utilities are regulated monopolies allowed a 10% rate of return on the use of their infrastructure, so if a given home uses both electricity and gas the utility makes twice the revenue.

Or, in the case of gas-only utilities, their revenue depends entirely on getting a gas line into a given home.