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Originally Posted by Lune
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Under the current system, no, it won't be fixed as long as the baby boomers are alive. Fixing this problem would require widespread cultural changes away from a growth/consumption driven economy and towards a more sustainable model where we aren't gobbling down resources like fucking outrageous gluttons.
When people like Trump and the Republicans deny facts and evidence regarding climate science, evolution, or any other issue (under considerable influence from energy companies, religious fundamentalists, etc), those cultural changes get stalled. Huge masses of people fall into lockstep with party dogma and it gets reinforced in conservative media that serves the party establishment (just like the liberal side and immigration, social justice, political correctness).
We don't even know for sure if the effects of global warming will be net-negative, but I just want policy to be guided by facts and evidence. The way I see it, this desire to deny global warming and the climactic effects of industry is tied in with our obsession with growth and consumption.
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It's called realpolitik duke. pandering to climate change and evolution denial is vital to securing Don the presidency. He's going for a coalition of luddite retards and single-issue homosexual identitarians who remember hillary opposing gay marriage until the last. This is democracy in action.
Good news is
TRUMP is clearly smart enough to understand what he is doing, unlike the average career Rebuttlickan.