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Thank you, Comrade Trump | The Strait of Epstein crisis is going to do more to accelerate permanent, unidirectional migration away from fossil fuels to cleantech than decades of environmental activism (pluralistic.net)
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[-] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

The guy has an uncanny knack of accelerating good things, despite trying his darndest to destroy everything good.

Canada was becoming divided before he came along, Tesla was considered a viable brand, and now he’s inadvertently driving the world to renewables.

What’s next? He somehow tries to take Greenland and ends up ridding the world of micro plastics?

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

He becomes fertilizer for sunflowers.

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