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So what's the acceptable rate changing from?
Does anyone know? Or is this more journoslop?
This is like reversing Biden's (or California's) decree to shift everyone to an EV by 2030, and then someone reasonable stops that, so now the journ*lists and other r-slurs can go on and on about how the world will die from pollution because of this.
!chuds !nonchuds, which one of you is being r-slurred?
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The legal limit was and still is 15ppb but Biden had a policy goal of zero. Utilities that have lead and copper pipes are required to have corrosion control measures (mostly limiting sodium, calcium & potassium and maintaining a more neutral pH).
It's the only contaminant we have a higher legal limit than the EU on, we are comparable or better on everything else. EU is 5ppb limit with all countries required to hit 1ppb by 2036.
Reversing the Biden policy is r-slurred. There is no safe exposure limit for lead like there is for other heavy metals. Any utilities still using lead pipes by the end of the 2030's are embezzling funds, they have been illegal to install since the 80's. US was the last high-income country in the world to stop installing them and was one of the last country to ban them, 50 years after the danger was known.
It's one of the last r-slurred hangouts from before Nixon, Carter & Reagan largely fixed the crazy.
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Excess lead explains why americans are so violent.
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Are our chuddies older folk? Hopefully they die off soon
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Nah.
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at some point i realized the fricking cycle of life and death is fricking still important to the fricking survival of this species,
tho with climate change i am not sure it is fricking gunna work fast enough
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Boomers invented nuclear power, milloomers invented ... wind turbines and documentaries about how being queer will save the environment. The cycle isn't gonna help climate change.
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First fission pile was in Chiraq in 1942
Maybe this will pan out
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before u can solve a fricking problem, u need to recognize it exists, so
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That's not true, France solved climate change in the 70s before the environmentalists started campaigning against nuclear.
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incorrect
boiling water reactors aren't safe enough to become our global power supply, we need more advanced nuclear.
nor did they develop the fricking kind of political/economic organizations we need to build them across the fricking planet.
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their safer then letting r-slurs burn shit and steal the sun Gods power which will inevitably bring the wrath of the hevens
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Hmm I wonder if creating massive and unnecessary moral panic/social pressure against all nuclear power had anything to do with preventing the development of safer and more advanced nuclear power hmm
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we can speed it up with the day of the pillow
I'll be taking my inheritance now, boomerstrags
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Hopefully you can plead mercy for being an orphan
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China's climate emissions are already going down. We just have to watch out for India but India has a head start in adding renewable energy so their carbon emissions will never rise to China's level.
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a) it is way too early too tell if this is a meaningful and continued decline.b) all that matters is global emissions. looking at nation state statics going up or down may just be emissions shifting around.c) we need not only zero emissions, but also too build out the capacity too take all the CO2 out.d) u have no idea what's actually at stake.I stand with Israel, and they will stand with us.
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IT is a meaningful decline because China's renewable energy share keeps scaling up every year.
That is why I pointed out India in my example next to China. That is 34% of the world's population right there.
Yeah. Decarbonization, the tech will have matured within a 30 year timeframe. The Decarbonization market is already scaling up at 13% per year, so the moment the renewables market is full, things will continue right on with the decarbonization market.
I do. Polar bears.
Israel is meant to provide the reforestation of deserts and desalination tech.
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Just to be clear if carbon is plant food how will killing all the worlds fauna "save civilization"? just asking for a friend
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What?
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What do plants eat?
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Sunlight.
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it only matters if it actually globally displaces fossil fuel usage instead of just augmenting globally growing energy usagelol, there's no market here. there's just a couple science experiments conducted by people who haven't acknowledged the gravity of the situationtry harder_____
I stand with Israel, and they will stand within the fucking us.
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That's proved by their total carbon emission output going down. They are successfully cutting out pollution somewhere though it is not coal right now.
A decade outdated.
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/decarbonization-market-report
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it's not a market, it's a bunch of idiots trying too greenwash their unsustainable sinmeasuring this by country is literally just delusional cope_____
I stand with Israel, and they will stand within the fucking us.
@H ahahahahahahaha
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I disagree by 1 trillion USD.
I disagree again, I measured it by 17% of the world's population.
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Yeah—a lot of times those emissions get externalized to other places, if I make goywidgets that produce 2 metric tons of CO2 a year and I move my factory from the US to Botswana, global emissions have remained the same or even increased slightly because now we have to ship my Goywidgets in Bugpeople Boats.
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This is one of those evil-adjacent policies that makes me question whether rightoids are acting in good faith.
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More like Biden wasn't acting in good faith. The Biden rules weren't implemented until the administration was a lame duck. If the Dems really cared about health, they would have tried implementing them at some point in the previous few years. They know that implementation varies between incredibly financially infeasible and actually impossible but pass them anyway because they won't be responsible. Now the incoming administration has to drag everyone back to reality but gets reamed in the media because the optics look bad. Passing grenades like this is a time-honored tradition in American politics.
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That's because having a hard limit on any form of pollution, even lead, is stupid.
The socially optimal number of poison in your body is not zero.
!neolibs
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no dude, they aren't acting in good faith, they're fricking pieces of sub-human garbage.
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That's very unfair to the Biden administration
Even if their order to replace every single lead pipe is fricking r-slurred I think it came from a place of good intentions just complete disregard for the economic impact of the mandate
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9/10 kids choose lead paint chips
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you are still at the questioning level?
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This looks nice on paper but is this financially feasible? Most lead pipes are safe because the pipes have a protective patina covering them which prevents the metal from interacting with the water. The issue with Flynt was the r-slurred, cheap government didn't follow operating procedure and piped in acidic water that destroyed this protective coat. The acid also leeched lead from the pipes. When they stopped piping in that water, the pipes became safe within a certain time frame.
Anything from the Guardian is pure smug and seethe since its an upper class foid blog anyways.
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is fricking it financially feasible to maintain a fricking smart, expensive govt, b-word?
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Or just not have towns run by trashy black people.
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imagine complaining about how stupid people are, but not giving a shit about lead poisoning_________
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They were stupid before the lead ingestion.
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and the lead ingestion magnifies it_________
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This is great way to kill off the inner city population.
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great title
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i thought brain worm man was gonna get bad chemicals out of the drinking water so that our
arent rslurred?
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I
CARCINOGENS!!!!!
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This is me
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American decline for a generation guaranteed. Watch as this pushes every single nation in the world to look for America alternatives in every way that they can reach them.
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that's a fricking really tiring move
not poisoning everyone should be an easy consensus by now
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"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Snapshots:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/republicans-lead-exposure-rules:
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