Von der Leyen demonstrate how to quickly lose credibility on protecting the environment.
Soon she'll tell she wants to fight forest fires without reducing the amount of gas being poured on forests by arsonists.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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I agree with this. Reducing emissions is more important than focusing solely on transitioning away from fossil fuels. We need to reduce our footprint, not increase it because transitioning away will only become harder.
What are you smoking? Transitioning away from fossil fuels is the most impactful way we can curb emissions.
And stopping the increase in plastics production - plastics made from fossil oil that is used mostly for packaging and then lillte later becomes garbage which is burned, releasing more carbon.
We need both, because we will never reduce our energy consumption. It will keep escalating. Historically, the result of reducing how energy intensive our systems are has been that electricity becomes cheap for something else (see crypto, AI). We need to stop sponsoring any fossil fuel extraction, refinement and imports to make it less attractive for energy markets, and instead aggressively fund solar, wind and a variety of storage capacity.