Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.

  • tmyakal@infosec.pubEnglish
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    7 days ago

    No reason to assume she’s getting paid. Plenty of people are just ignorant and angry. There’s a coalition of Upstate NY farmers screeching like banshees about how NY agriculture is being sold up the river to support valueless clean energy initiatives. They’re all over the local news and town halls and city councils.

    Never mind that only about 0.3% of NY’s arable farmland has been converted to solar, or that moving to clean energy is essential to curb climate change that is literally right now, this week, flooding NY farms and destroying crop yields.

    Classic Hanlon’s razor stuff.

    • nforminvasion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Thanks for pointing this out.

      It is worth noting that many of these farmers also have a material and financial interest in continuing fossil fuel dependency, as many of their corn crops go to biofuel in ethanol.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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      6 days ago

      No reason to assume she’s getting paid. Plenty of people are just ignorant and angry.

      In the individual I agree, but when it becomes an obvious astroturf process juiced up by rightwing nutjobs who own the platforms than that is different, hence why I put my effort in here and not those places.