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The people here think China is building 40 coal plants a week due to the media. Thats their excuse to "stop trying to fix the problems" but in reality it just means we should do more. In fact people have written articles about how we could export energy quite cheaply and undercut the oil and gas, and the French nuclear.
America could have had a green industrial revolution and been the world leader in manufacturing renewable energy equipment from hydro generators to wind turbines to solar panels.
But half our country thinks it isn't real so we willingly let China start doing laps around us which will put them at the top of the global economy for the next 100 years.
Energy and fossil firms had evidence for climate change back in the 70s. Documents have been leaked for years but they've gaslit people for so long it didnt have any effect.
The scientific community has been screaming about it the whole time. The fossil fuel industry has a hell of a propoganda arm but idk if I'd call it gaslighting, it's pretty easy to sell people on the message of "everythings fine and you deffinitly should not feel bad or even think about your consumption"
It's not like people are unaware of the concept half the country just decided it wasn't real because that would be inconvenient and another giant chunk acknowledges it but gets mad if anybody suggests they do anything about it.
Meanwhile in germany...
Yep https://www.power-technology.com/news/germany-to-keep-coal-as-power-source-this-winter/ That or Russian gas. Both pretty bad. They need more nuclear.