Global climate action lies on a knife edge, hinging upon American leadership that is threatened by a prospective Trump second term and a radicalized GOP intent on undermining climate progress both …
Correct me if I'm wrong but their military is a huge polluter, and I don't see that as being something either side would change due to the politics around fucking with the military, so it's even more of a problem on top of the already massive problem that is capitalism
Biden has started going down the road of electricifying the military. But of course, slimming down the military is the kind of holy cow neither mainstream party would touch. We are seeing a quasi-worldwide military push anyway, which is unsurprising in the wider context of missing global climate action.
From another outsiders perspective the difference seems to be that the Democrats invest in green technologies, whereas the Republicans do not. Both support fossil fuels thou.
Can't make any assumptions one way or another. We're dealing with positive feedback loops, so even if humans all get Thanos-snapped out of existence RIGHT NOW putting a full stop to emissions, pollution, etc, the environment will continue to worsen on its own because of the downward spirals we've set into motion.
The question is how long those feedback loops can go until they're broken naturally; or if they even can be broken naturally.
We may well have set our planet on a warming path that ends with it being molten, or one that sheds our atmosphere into space.
So... things might fix themselves after we go extinct; or it'll get worse until even the most resilient of extremophiles can't carry on, and Earth becomes another lifeless rock floating in space.