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  Thank you! The perfect example of what democrats love! 
  Nibbling around the corners, quoting meaningless statistics and pushing out when real change will happen to 2030. And claiming victory. 
  It’s the perfect distillation of liberalism. It is performative. It will not solve climate change. 
  We both know it. 
  If we both live another thirty years, let’s reconnect and see what this law that you’re so proud of accomplished. I’ll be almost 90 but if I am alive and floating near you clinging to a bit of flotsam where manhattan used to be, we can revisit.
context: The main reason it passed last time was Democrats conceding to tax cuts being passed with it. It was also added to a military spending bill, to make sure no one would vote against it.
  Democrats would have to win a super majority or concede to something huge to get it passed now. >
  
  The republicans moved right and the Dems moved along with them because compromise is what Dems value most. >
  
  The Dems have not, by any metric, moved rightward since the end of third way politics in the Clinton administration. >
  
  Obama bailed out the banks and prosecuted no one. His healthcare plan was Romneycare who, as you may know, is a Republican. Saudi Arabia has consistently been the US biggest customer in buying weapons. A weapon purchased from the US blew up a school bus in Yemen killing 40 children. Fracking continues apace. Obama issued an apology for bombing a hospital in Afghanistan. Kids remain in cages. Biden appointed Rahm Emmanuel as ambassador to Japan who covered up a murder. The democratic mayor of Atlanta wants to build a police city on 85 acres of forest for 95 million dollars. Eric Adams former cop is the democratic mayor of NYC. Should I keep going?
  Nothing on climate change. No green new deal. Caving to mansion. Cuomo appointed conservative judges which cost the Dems the house. And so on. >
  
  
  Nothing on climate change.
  
  Are you seriously suggesting that the climate provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure bill and in the IRA was nothing? How could any policy-minded person seriously think that? >
  
  Yeah. It’s revolutionary. We’re all set. Thank god. I was worried. >
  
  Don’t move the goal posts. You said they have done nothing on climate change. Clearly that isn’t true, right? Unless your definition of nothing is anything short of revolutionary. >
  
  By nothing I mean the liberal performative bull shit and corporate giveaways that Dems love. 
  But you know. Keep defending that stuff. It’s really working. Everything is gonna be fine. >
  
  I’m sorry, but you just have a very poor understanding of what climate legislation passed last congress if your takeaway is that it’s liberal performative bullshit. It’s conservatively estimated to shave off an additional 10% of GHG emissions from 2005 levels this decade. That puts the US in striking distances of the Biden administration’s target to cut GHG emissions 50% by 2030. And that’s before considering further state action and additional statutory authority provided to the EPA to regulate emissions reductions. For example, the IRA created a methane pricing program that will assess a fee per metric ton of methane emissions. That programs is targeted in scope and likely to expand, but it’s a pretty big deal and certainly not performative or a giveaway. The IRA also amended the Clean Air Act in response to West Virginia v EPA to explicitly give the EPA statutory authority to regulate GHG emissions as air pollutants. This gives them broad power to regulate the decarbonization of the economy - another huge deal. These are just two examples of many.