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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change

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U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago
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To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”
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    Yeah, you’re right, I guess I missed the forest for the trees there. They’re using weird and counterproductive arguments to make their claim though.

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      Lies tend to be like that.

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