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Posted by DeepLogin 1 day ago

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution(text.hrw.org)
258 points | 263 commentspage 4
rassimmoc 1 day ago|
I think this is good idea. I am not against combating climate change, but it can't come at the expanse of our economy. If you disagree stop using whatever device you are reading this on.
berofeev 1 day ago|
Do you have children?
GreenVulpine 1 day ago|
Good to see some action away from "climate" regulations ruining the energy sector and making everything downstream more expensive. You can't have a booming industrial economy without cheap energy. And no, having strict regulations that just end up moving production offshore doesn't solve anything. It just moves to pollution to China or India or whatever.
dumberquestions 1 day ago||
We're already paying for and will continue to pay more for the downstream effects of climate change some way or the other, you just refuse to or are unable to look at the bigger picture.
nxm 1 day ago||
Tell China and India to stop building coal plants first, and also ban private jets, and then we can talk.
dumberquestions 1 day ago||
Taxing carbon will affect everything, including private jets, and China is doing more for solar power than any other place in the world and they're also investing heavily in renewables and nuclear.

In any case, the solution to other countries not doing their parts is figuring out ways to incentivise and coordinate better outcomes, not giving up completely, giving up only makes sense if someone is in denial regarding the consequences.

sailfast 1 day ago|||
How does one move power plant pollution offshore to China?
Phelinofist 1 day ago|||
> a booming industrial economy

Nothing more important than that!!

collinmcnulty 1 day ago|||
This is absurd. The cheapest energy available is solar, which is becoming more true every day. If truly the goal was just to have cheap energy, solar buildout would be a huge component of the strategy.
efnx 1 day ago||
So now as a planet we have to curb greenhouse gasses in the US _and_ China or India or whatever.