> Less than 3 in 10 Americans say they know a good or great deal about the Inflation Reduction Act, though many voters in both parties support some of its key climate programs

What’s actually going on:

Graph showing estimated US emissions by year, 2005-2035, with and without the Inflation Reduction Act. Shows US emissions dropping to ~50% below 2005 levels in 2035 with the IRA, but not dropping much without it

  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    Europe is far ahead of the US already for starters, so no the US will not be spurring them to action. Theyre already miles ahead.

    Secondly, Russia does not care about ‘looking like the bad guy’ and Asia is a major continent with tons of different countries at tons of different development stages. Some are doing way better than the US, others worse.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      You are correct. I was trying to paint with a broad brush to describe the need for America to spearhead renewables. America is such an economic powerhouse in terms of financial exports and consumer imports that the switch would spur others to adopt renewables. Europe is years ahead with renewables than America.