[testaburger]

being realistic given the current administration, the best avenue for those that care about climate change would be to lobby their representatives for nuclear and specially coal to nuclear transitions (https://www.energy.gov/ne/coal-nuclear-transitions) and lobby for more government funding directed to accelerate this. This would be palatable to the current administration while also supporting the goal of less c02 and other emissions.

Heck this also takes away any incentive to restart the coal plants by private companies if they are being financially supported and already in the process of converting them to nuclear, and it takes away an incentive to build more long-term because each nuclear plant provides a lot more power on average. Another thing to lobby for would be for more SMRs funding and less regulation overall in nuclear (it's insane how overly regulated nuclear is based on one soviet fuck up of a crappy underfunded/flawed powerplant (chernobyl). Fukushima plants (commissioned in 1971!) were hit with a once in a lifetime 9.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on top despite being less than 100 miles from the epicenter even with regulatory lapses and no direct deaths.

[zahlman]

What do you suppose this administration dislikes about solar that wouldn't be equally unpalatable about nuclear? Keeping fossil fuels propped up is the only reason I can see solar not being an easy sell to Trump. Domestic solar panel production could be the space race of our time, and fit right into the tariff narrative, with the right prompting.

(And where did you get 9.5 from?)

[gorbachev]

It's woke.

I wish I was kidding.

[zahlman]

This claim requires more substantiation, and definition, to be taken seriously.

[hunter-gatherer]

Eh. This is less of a US political party problem. We aren't the only consumers and emitters. Even if we were, I don't think this _really_ is democrat vs republican. Silicon Valley types vote left. Also pushed gaming, cryptocurrency, AI, internet marketing, and everything else that helps us consume more dumbshit.

[nerdponx]

> Silicon Valley types vote left

Citation needed. The famous SV names are all dumping money into right wing authoritarian political causes.

[zahlman]

"The famous SV names" you have in mind are a tiny, elite fringe. The culture among typical workers is obvious. Consider https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2025/08/20... for example.

[nerdponx]

So that's 35 Microsoft employees. Rank and file employees are probably all over the political spectrum. But two things have become clear over the past decade: 1) people who identify as conservative and/or libertarian tend to keep it to themselves except around other people that they believe identify the same way, and 2) the people in the tech industry who actually have power and money are either long-standing right wing authoritarians, right wing libertarians, or sycophants who just support whatever the people in power seem to prefer.