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Originally Posted by mooby
I give Obama credit for digging us out of the post-GWB hole and setting the foundation, and I give Trump credit for continuing that. Where do I draw the line between Obama credit and Trump credit? I don't, because it's a dumb idea to try.
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You say it's a dumb idea to try, but do you believe the growth that is occuring in GDP would have occurred under a continuation of Pres Obama's policies in a HRC presidency, or do you believe that the policies of Pres Trump created the regulatory and tax environment for higher growth.
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S/N while Trump deserves credit for continuing the growth of the economy, I wonder much more about the impact it's going to leave on the earth long after you and the baby boomer generation is gone. Aka, when my generation is your age and our kids will be the ones paying the price. Trade policies and the like can be changed once Trump is gone, if the current path we're on keeps trending the climate will only get worse from here.
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I am not a climate change denier, but I am most definitely a denier of policy driven on fears. We have lived for 50 years since they predicted we would run out of oil in 40 years. In 1000AD, the world's food supply was going to run out. etc etc.
The biggest thing global doomsayers ignore is human resourcefulness. Climate change is by its nature a slow process, even the doomsayer videos show changes occurring over 50-200 year timespans. Fact is, I'm far more worried about the political viability of the US constitution over the next 100 years and the country our kids and grandkids will live in, than sea levels shrinking the total land mass by some percentage. We may have to have different constructions, and we may have to find new ways to deal with disease, but humans have changed and survived in the harshest, to the softest climates. We are looking at populating a barren planet of Mars. We aren't recreating Venus, Mars, or Jupiter type environments, and with every leap in technology and creativity, we get closer to being more planet friendly, and as that technology spreads to places like India and China we have a better chance of saving the planet then any false security that accords like the Paris accord presented.