[reportingsjr]

> opening up more federal land for drilling and mining

I'm honestly not sure how much a difference Trump will make in this. The US greatly increased oil and gas production under Biden.

It seems that policies that supported an energy transition were generally working. If those get rolled back, hopefully things are in a good enough place that more sustainable energy continues dominating.

[_heimdall]

I'm still not actually clear how an energy transition will even work unless its paired with a huge reduction in how much total energy we actually use.

Moving from fossil fuels to renewables or even nuclear is all well and good, but it takes a huge amount of natural resources to pull off. Nuclear may be easier, renewables require a lot more resources than we currently have.

[moogly]

> unless its paired with a huge reduction in how much total energy we actually use.

This is very unrealistic IMO. That will never happen. It flies against the whole idea of civilization and the development of human history.

Energy consumption will rise on larger timescales. Best you can do is to tame the growth by efficiency and using more renewable, greener energy generation.

If you want to keep bees on your apartment roof that is fine, but we are not all going back to being subsistence farmers at this point.

Defeatist? Perhaps, but I don't think so.

[rdtsc]

> The US greatly increased oil and gas production under Biden.

And critically, I think, the Harris campaign failed to highlight facts like that, and emphasize how she will be different. Instead she completely bungled the messaging and went for "I'll do nothing different from what Biden did except add a Republican in my cabinet".

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/harris-campaign-...

> “What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” co-host of ABC’s “The View” Sunny Hostin asked Harris, looking to give her a set for her to spike over the net. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said.

Talk about a monumental failure.

[_heimdall]

Her campaign, and the democratic party more broadly, made a lot of mistakes. Her failing to distinguish herself from Biden was one of them, but I don't actually think it was the worst. They believed that Biden was going to win and waited way too late to swap in a replacement, it kind of makes sense that they wouldn't try to differentiate if they honestly believed Biden was a good candidate with a viable platform.