Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies.

The 920-page blueprint, whose hundreds of authors include former Trump administration officials, would go far beyond past GOP efforts to slash environmental agencies’ budgets or oust “deep state” employees.

Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.

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    So… What do these dumbasses think is happening with the weather and the eventual outcome of all of this? Are these clowns really that delusional thattheey think oil and gas is just going to be in definetly available??

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      catastrophe is good for business. if the climate would do it instead they’ll save some money on bombs.

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      Uh, the capitalists don’t give a fuck what happens next quarter; what makes you think they’ll care about what happens next quarter-century? Profit is the god we’re forced to worship, and we have bound and trussed earth’s biosphere for that altar.

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        Who are these capitalists you’re referring to? I understand, that conservative politicians and their sponsors are among them. However, there are many regular people with no personal interest in business. They will suffer and their children will suffer. Yet they are still willing to elect someone like Trump.

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      They don’t care. They’ll be sucking their benefactors dicks in the doomsday bunkers the obscenely rich have been building in secret, safe from the consequences of their actions.

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      Some of them know and just don’t care because they’re getting paid now and who cares about tomorrow? That’s someone else’s problem. The evangelicals among them think that 1) god gave them explicit permission to have “dominion” (do whatever the fuck they want to) and 2) it doesn’t matter anyway because they’re going to be in heaven when the shit hits the fan.

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      They want to bring about the apocalypse so they can get raptured up to heaven, they don’t give a shit about anything other than that.

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      But it’s all Obama’s Biden’s fault!

      As long as there’s someone to blame, it doesn’t matter that things continue to get worse.