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Trump administration will be a disaster for science and an end to the idea that government can help solve our climate problems. Installing this guy at the EPA w
by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Trump administration will be a disaster for science and an end to the idea that government can help solve our climate problems. Installing this guy at the EPA will be like having your Great Library sacked by barbarians in Civilization. You don't come back from that.
- k__ 10y agoDidn't Neil deGrasse Tyson say republicans love wealth and every civilization thay took their efforts away from science lost all their wealth, so they will keep funding it?
- honkhonkpants 10y agoDid he? Republicans favor policies that increase the wealth of the incumbent wealthy and are indifferent to policies that increase the wealth of the median citizen.
- smitty1110 10y agoIt's not that they love wealth, it's that they hate the government telling them what to do. They'll like this guy because he'll loosen regulations, scale back enforcement, etc. It's going to be a rough 2 years until midterms.
- uw_rob 10y agoThat assumes that Republicans agree with that hypothesis. Although I don't know the context of Tysons quote, I assume however that he means that efforts are allocated to the 'correct' areas of science.
- indexerror 10y agoExcept when science stands in the way of getting more wealth. Then fuck science.