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'Carbon Bubble' Could Spark Global Financial Crisis, Study Warns (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The existence of a "carbon bubble" -- assets in fossil fuels that are currently overvalued because, in the medium and long-term, the world will have to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- has long been proposed by academics, activists and investors. The new study, published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that a sharp slump in the value of fossil fuels would cause this bubble to burst, and posits that such a slump is likely before 2035 based on current patterns of energy use. Crucially, the findings suggest that a rapid decline in fossil fuel demand is no longer dependent on stronger policies and actions from governments around the world. Instead, the authors' detailed simulations found the demand drop would take place even if major nations undertake no new climate policies, or reverse some previous commitments. That is because advances in technologies for energy efficiency and renewable power, and the accompanying drop in their price, have made low-carbon energy much more economically and technically attractive.
You're an idiot if you think Hilary will be in 2020. But we appreciate you helping us :)
USAan here - many of my fellow countryman are dumb as posts. Researching candidates and their positions takes work, and thereâ(TM)s a new Kardashians on, so they vote based on gut, or thatâ(TM)s the party their parent voted for.
Hillary was a better choice than Donald, but that in no way means either should have been President, and yet all the stupid people acted as if they were the only choices. Weâ(TM)re only a two party system because we keep voting that way. If there was ever a time to break that cycle this past election was the time. But apparently most of us are not up to it. The government we deserve indeed.
Um yeah, Trump is worse.
Not that know why anyone would be hoping for Hillary 2020 at this point.
But Trump is deeefinitely worse.
Party loyalty. It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It matters that he's a Republican. The political parties in this country really whip their members up into a boiling mess, when the other party has a success, though the Democrats seem to be better at that, than the Republicans. George Bush sends soldiers to the Middle East, he's just trying to extract oil from the area, but a few years later, Barrack Obama sends soldiers to the Middle East, and no one says a damned thing, either because their own party did it first, or because now their party is doing it.
Case in point, you'll find that a lot of people were quite vocal about wanting Bernie Sanders over Hilary during the primaries, to the point of speaking out against Hilary. When the primaries were over, though, and Hilary was chosen as the Democrats' candidate, those same people turned around, and started chanting in favor of Hilary. There are exceptions to this, no doubt, but it's something I saw quite a bit of on Twitter during 2016.
Ultimately, who the candidate is, really isn't so important to people at large, even if they go out of their way to say things for or against that person. Which party they represent, on the other hand, is almost everything.
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