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It's interesting, the new President seems to be able to reverse himself on many issues after discussing them with bureaucrats/foreign policy/trade experts. I wonder who among his administration could convince him to change his mind here.

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I'm still not convinced it's not an act. The guy would have to be unusually dense to govern with ignorance of both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. The greenhouse effect was discovered over 100 years ago, not placed on a napkin as a hunch in a bar 10 years ago.

It’s hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.

– Upton Sinclair

I think you are vastly underestimating the capacity of (near)human beings to be completely fucking stupid and delusional.

Many of his base don't believe in global warming, or if they do that it's big problem, or that it's too costly to fix. Skip to about 6 minutes in of this TED talk to get an idea on how some people think about climate change:

https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioriti...

It's not a big deal

Right, but they were also big on several of the isolationist policies that he seems to be quickly doing a ctrl-Z on.

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