• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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      21 days ago

      We just need to have a devastating civil war that destroys most of our existing energy infrastructure and we can get there too 😊

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      20 days ago

      Lol this is not a case of Syria being just very environmentally concious and deciding to get far ahead in the solar game. Its a case of not having reliable electricity infrastructure so solar is the only and neccesary option.

      Is this ideal? No. Is it good that a lot of people are successfully relying on solar energy? Yes, and developed countries need to catch up.

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        16 days ago

        I think you interpreted my post as praise for apparent Syrian environmentalism, rather than criticism that a country which has experienced so much strife has that, while the United States has nothing like that.

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        21 days ago

        We can’t even manage to do the apartment buildings, let alone the solar panels.

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            20 days ago

            It doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, the demand has to exist first in order to get the transit approved; otherwise the car-brains call it “useless” and win. You have to force through the density and make it painful to drive before there’s a critical mass of support for it.

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        21 days ago

        More than that. Carter put solar panels on the White House. Regan took them down. 40+ years of making America worse so the dragons could grow their hordes.

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        21 days ago

        Real people wouldn’t even notice from the streets, but rich fucks would see them from their jets and oppose it.