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RE: LeoThread 2025-12-30 07-42

in LeoFinance7 days ago

up. And I own it. OK. So let's talk about climate, because Obama did something interesting today. He's been denying that there's a war on coal. But he has been fighting a war on coal. He's been winning it. Great. It's a war we finally won and a war we should fight. Coal is bad. And what did he do today? Well, he did something really great. I want to start by saying that the coal miners are really addressed also in a very thoughtful way. He wants to give a lot of retraining and care about their future. But this rule that you're talking about is really significant. He put a hold on all new coal leases on public land. And this is a first. And what a lot of people are excited about also is that he's launching a process to, for the first time, require the calculation of the full costs of burning coal, the social cost of carbon, the climate costs. And a lot of people say, why haven't we been measuring that all along? It's not that hard to do. But what he did today was really significant. And (6/45)