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it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department's renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California's car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.

McNamee outlines cutting key divisions at DOE, including the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Loan Programs Office. He has called climate change a “progressive policy.”

But that increase in state power wouldn’t apply to California, which has a history of setting more aggressive environmental standards than those of the federal government under a Clean Air Act waiver. The Project 2025 plan would “ensure that other states can adopt California’s standards only for traditional/criteria pollutants, not greenhouse gasses.”

Cool!

I sell commercial solar arrays. I am proud as hell of making an actual, meaningful climate impact.

Any identifications on these puppies?

All over the country, in cities big and small, police departments are recruiting tiny fractions of what they used to be able to. Cleveland's graduating class from police academy this year was 9 piglets. In 2000, they had 87. Similar drops are happening all over the country. Cities may be refusing to defund, but their PDs are shrinking anyways because the vast majority of people have realized that cops are basically evil.

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I recently 100%'d Terra Nil, an excellent indie puzzle/strategy game about ecological restoration. It rules and is extremely environmentalist. The premise is that you are responsible for restoring habitats ruined by human civilization. There's never any background about exactly what happened (because you know and see it every day) or how society got to the point of dedicating itself to fixing these problems; it simply takes for granted that, eventually, something is going to be done (a bit of a "communism is inevitable" message, imo). The game is not very difficult, but I found it rewarding nonetheless. It's also just a chill af vibe.

I'm also a big fan of a very different series on ecological restoration: Horizon. It goes a bit underdiscussed, but the A plot of those games is that capitalists will destroy the earth in the worst way imaginable, but that no crisis is final, and we can, eventually, undo the damage we've done. You fight big robots and

Horizon Forbidden West spoilers

kill the would-be immortal trillionaries who caused the problem in the first place

. Though they're the epitome of big bombastic, cinematic PlayStation games, I love that shit and I'm all about the message the games are sending. They are, ultimately, optimistic.

What are some other games where environmentalism is the core theme? Particularly if what they depict is the good side of humanity's interaction with the environment: fixing the shit capitalists broke. That's the vibe I'm after most of all.

Turns out basically nobody is as conservative as their church.