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Next day of nationwide protests is April 19th. 5 million showed up last Saturday. Let's make the next one larger

For the moment in the current AI boom, but not expected to in the long run. Just make the progress less fast. Still not ideal, of course, but don't get into the mindset that we can't make any progress at all when we still can and are doing so

From the article

Ember’s report shows that clean generation growth is set to outpace faster-rising demand in the coming years, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil fuel generation. The current expected growth in clean generation would be sufficient to meet a demand increase of 4.1% per year to 2030, which is above expectations for demand growth.

It is worth noting that you can already beat meat on price with things like beans, lentils, chickpeas, etc. Plant-based meats specifically are just more expensive because they're building the economies of scale and putting some of their research costs into the price. Plant-based meats are also already cheaper than animal meats in some parts of the world

But yes, once that becomes much prevalent, sales will likely increase substantially

As a related note: this is also encouraging that a number of coffee chains are now dropping their non-dairy milk up charges after pressure from activists. Once they got Starbucks to do so, it's spread to tons of chains. Even the worst plant milks are way better across all environmental metrics compared to dairy (yes even water weighted by scarcity), so it's going to be good for the environment

It becoming financially convenient was a result of decades of intentional policy. It's now snowballing once it got there

It would have taken far longer to get here without government involvement if applications like space travel were the only reasons for earlier research and manufacturing

Not that pausing this is anything less than insane, but note that SCOTUS has recently given administrative stays and then ruled against Trump after that. Nothing is a given either way

The fight isn't over until it's over. Don't read this news and give in the doom and cynicism Trump wants us all to have. We can still fight back, and people are still fighting. 5 million were on the street on Saturday. There's another nationwide 50501 protest on April 19th

Even if any did, they would be part of voters abroad (US citizens can vote by mail if living outside the country) who are an even bluer voting block. If memory serves me right, it's on the order of like D+60 overall

This article wasn't about the US, but in terms of the US:

The margins dipped, but they didn't flip to voting for Trump overall

18-29 year-olds voted Harris+4 overall and Young women in particular voted Harris+18

Headlines are often misleading about changes within group voting patterns

https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election

And the conservative candidate still lost by 10 points despite that

People are pissed

Check my post history*. I post about them quite frequently here on Lemmy. They still get less attention here even. The sorting algorithms like active boost posts with more engagement which photos of protests often don't get until they are truly enormous

For instance, here was one large protest a month ago in the Iowa Statehouse that I had posted about

So social media posts about protests often get lost in the sea of bad news and news outlets are downplaying them severely. That's why few people were hearing about them

*From my instance or some other one. From your instance, it seems a lot of my posts about the protests haven't federated :(

Related:

The Growing Tesla Takedown Protest This Weekend & Next Weekend

In Europe:

Globally:

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown