Highly unusual list includes 533 businesses and trade organisations
Donald Trump has drawn up a scorecard for corporate America, ranking companies based on their loyalty to his administration.
The highly unusual list ranks 533 businesses and trade organisations based on their efforts to champion the US president’s “one big beautiful bill”, according to reports.
Companies that have fared well deployed a variety of tactics – often trumpeting the benefits of an individual policy, such as Uber’s celebration of Mr Trump’s “no tax on tips” proposal.
The scorecard, which Axios said will aid decision-making on corporate requests, comes as part of Mr Trump’s “America First” agenda and protectionist policies.
Stop the pollution first. Geoengineering is at best speculative, and at worst, may be a cure that’s worse than the problem.
Stop all pollution today and we’re still done and over with, as will about 90% of all species. Geo engineering is our last chance. I particularly like blocking sunlight as a solution. Any solution will have drawbacks. Huge amounts of water vapor above parts of the ocean sounds tempting to me too.
Edit: for all the down voters: https://presearch.com/search?q=accidental+geo-engineering+experiment
Edit 2: Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
Blocking sunlight? Like the one nearly limitless energy source we have?
How about stuff like… Planting more trees, ending deforestation of the Amazon? How about reducing automobile usage?
Like, these all have no negative impacts, but blocking the sun does, in fact.
Plants don’t use heat to make energy, they use sunlight. And you’re discussing cutting off the energy source of the one type organism capable of cleaning our atmo…
Those are indeed much better examples of changes we need but we are rapidly approaching the point where those changes are too late. Given the severity of the likely impact, we need the urgency to act in greater desperation. By all means we need to go all out with renewable energy, net zero, walkable cities, and so many more transformation of modern society. It is the only sustainable approach. But is it too little, too late? At what point do we need to take more desperate measures?
We need to at least develop a better understanding of terraforming earth because that may quickly become our best hope
We already passed that point. It already is too late. Your proposed solutions are too little too late. All these things had to have happened in the mid 90s at the latest. Instead, we doubled down on energy efficiency, which makes the bad thing only cheaper to use and thus the net pollution increases while sealing our future.
Wrong, If you are correct, though, the only correct way to proceed is to completely exterminate all human life on the planet, since we are obviously the problem.
What we are long past is maintaining the current level of consumption the western world does, and maintain current climate.
Note, the only ones reducing consumption and pollution of the working class. Jeff Bezos still dumps tons of carbon into the air needlessly, just to go golfing.
Didn’t you pay attention? Even if we stopped all pollution today, it’s too late. The temperatures will keep increasing. Up to 7 degrees at least. The only thing that can save this current epoch is humanity. But it will need extreme measures. And we’ll need them yesterday.
Edit: Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
I didn’t say just stop all pollution. We can reforest, and repair the damage we did.
If this is the case, then your original premise is false, that there’s nothing to be done.
Yes, extreme measures like abolishing capitalism, reducing our consumption models, and repairing the damage we’ve done.
That is a myth. We are not past the point of healing the planet. If we are, then we should just self-exterminate, so the planet can heal itself, which it will, once we’re gone.
We’re past the point of maintaining the current consumption model of western nations, and maintaining a status quo, or return, to pre-industrialization levels of pollution.
We’re rapidly approaching several possible tipping points that will “rapidly” (over decades or a century) make many of the most populated parts of the world much less livable, disrupt agriculture on a global scale, cause mass die offs, disrupt water supplies and weather patterns.
The only thing “saving” us is the uncertainty: we’re not good at predicting them yet (since they’ve never happened in the history of the earth) so we don’t know how desperate we need to be
I agree with this statement. Those “tipping points” however can be walked back, by doing things like actually repairing the damage we’ve done, instead of just reducing the amount of damage.
I can make one prediction with near 100% certainty: As long as we maintain out current economic model, human life on this planet will likely cease to exist within the next couple hundred years.
They really can’t. They’re called tipping points because they’re likely irreversible, in society terms.
As we approach these tipping points we’re quickly running out of things we can do, and the scariest part is we can’t even predict when it’s too late and probably won’t until well afterword
Most all of these can be prevented, and even reversed, if we: Drastically reduce our consumption based lifestyles, reforest places like the Amazon (Our planet’s lungs), and get creative with other methods (ie, algae cultivation on a large scale).
But, these all require abolishing capitalism, in order to be done.