Short diary here born out of genuine confusion. I am curious as to how one should react to this headline in The Guardian:
US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks
Here is a quote from an article from Earthjustice.org:
“The dichotomy between holding a lease sale and committing to cut back U.S. carbon emissions is glaring,” said Brettny Hardy, Earthjustice attorney. “The administration is violating the law by moving forward with the sale based on incorrect data that does not properly reflect the impact that giving more land to industry for oil production would have on the Gulf of Mexico, the surrounding ecosystems, and our planet. By selling these leases, the Biden administration is not solving the oil prices of today, but instead increasing the United States’ climate heating emissions tomorrow.”
“If Louisiana is going to have any chance of saving our land, we need real climate action and a serious investment in renewable energy,” said Healthy Gulf’s Executive Director Cynthia Sarthou. “This lease sale takes us in the wrong direction — ensuring that the oil industry can continue business as usual for decades.”
“The Biden administration is lighting the fuse on a massive carbon bomb in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous, hypocritical action in the aftermath of the climate summit,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “This will inevitably lead to more catastrophic oil spills, more toxic climate pollution, and more suffering for communities and wildlife along the Gulf Coast. Biden has the authority to stop this, but instead he’s casting his lot in with the fossil fuel industry and worsening the climate emergency.”
I am at a loss as to how to understand what is going on here. I expected someone on DK to address what appears to be glaring hypocrisy in the Biden administration. So far crickets. So can anyone enlighten us poor simps that are too dumb to understand 13-dimensional chess — or is this just us being gaslit by the Democratic party again?