Climate
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Are you kidding me. Opening California and more of the Gulf to offshore drilling is reckless and grotesquely hypocritical, like handing the fossil fuel industry a permission slip to wreck coasts and dump more carbon into the atmosphere while pretending to care about energy security. If the Atlantic side of Florida is mostly spared, great, but that does nothing for the West Coast, Alaska, or Gulf communities that will actually pay the price for spills, ruined fisheries, and lost tourism.
This isn't a "jobs" plan, it's a corporate giveaway. The moment you put drilling platforms off the California coast you risk endangered species, Indigenous marine rights, and entire local economies for a few years of extraction. And let's not forget the climate math: more oil up front means more carbon locked into the atmosphere, setting us further from any sane emissions targets.
Fight it. Call your reps, support state bans and lawsuits, donate to groups fighting these leases, and make sure voters remember who voted to sell our coasts. Hell no to more drilling.