They're just evil and want to maximize short term profit with no consideration of side effects or impacts to future trajectories, and their ideas are so stupid and shortsighted they don't even maximize short term profits either.

You're talking about an administration voted in by people who attack meteorologists because they think they cause hurricanes[0], and a President who has called climate change a Chinese hoax.

This is a perfectly rational set of policies as far as these people are concerned. How else are we going to stop the Jewish space lasers?

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/meteorologists-threats...

I don't think they're educated enough to know the difference.

It's one of those troublesome "reality has a left wing bias" problems. If you let the facts express themselves too much, the gap between truth and propaganda becomes too noticeable. Can't have that.