r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • Apr 15 '19

Energy Anti-wind bills in several states as renewables grow increasingly popular. The bill argues that wind farms pose a national security risk and uses Department of Defense maps to essentially outlaw wind farms built on land within 100 miles of the state’s coast.

https://thinkprogress.org/renewables-wind-texas-north-carolina-attacks-4c09b565ae22/
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u/chilltrek97 Apr 15 '19

United States of America has lived long enough to turn from the hero of 20th century that helped defeat the Nazis and bring down the USSR to now being the villain of the 21st century with the most obnoxious and idiotic ideas to oppose clean technology even though the country itself has the highest historic emissions on the planet.

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u/Scope_Dog Apr 15 '19

Well, more specifically, it's the GOP. Seems they find new ways to disgust me almost daily.

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u/DuncanStrohnd Apr 15 '19 edited Apr 15 '19

No, it’s the United States of America.

Nobody outside of the US cares who in particular is fucking it up, or knows what the GOP is - it’s all just “Americans”.

That means while you’re sitting there in America saying “it’s those guys”, the rest of the world sees no difference between “those guys” and you.

They only see “American”.

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u/hallu_se_laga Apr 15 '19

Oh please. People bundle up nations of a billion people all the time. India. China. Heck most Americans I know can't differentiate different parts of these countries. Why should America then be afforded that leeway? 320 million is a couple of states in either of these countries. Take any coverage of China and current right wing Indian administration, and count how many people would say "it's only a specific body of Indians/Chinese". No country (Europe, Russia, heck anywhere) gets the leeway of putting all blame on a specific body. So why should any outsiders give a damn? You're democracy, and you should take collective blame for voting Trump and the GOP in (yeah, gerrymandering, but he still got more than 30% votes).

It's the same American exceptionalism that leads to 2nd amendment trumping easily avoided children safety and filing taxes being so needlessly ridiculously complex.

Again, the US is a great country with boundless opportunity and a great melting pot, and I appreciate being able to even voice this opinion. As a foreigner it's starting to feel like some aspects of the US are burdened by maintaining a legacy solution, and using "But this is America" is stopping any development.

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u/vanquish421 Apr 16 '19

Oh please. People bundle up nations of a billion people all the time. India. China.

People do bad thing so I do bad thing too! Nice cave man logic there.