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[–] zoetry 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

[misleading title]

This won't be the biggest step ever taken in the fight to combat anthropogenic climate change.

This will be the biggest step the US government has announced, but that's it.


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e2: Article tl;dr "Power plants account for 40% of US CO2 emissions. Obama wants to cut 32% of their CO2 emissions by 2030. "

Doing the math on this, this is a plan to decrease the US's CO2 emissions by less than a percent per year over the next 15 years.