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In reply to the discussion: 'Governments Must Lead': U.S. Corporations Beg Trump to Stay in Paris Agreement in Full Page NYT Ad [View all]Hekate
(90,927 posts)21. I read that sometime in the BushCheney admin. Even as they were coddling deniers...
...it turned out that the Pentagon had done a full analysis of the implications of global climate change from their particular perspective, because if you don't think that billions of coastal and new-desert refugees are going to create military/national security nightmares, then you are a moron on the scale of Trump, Pence, and Bannon.
I found this oddly comforting, because it showed that at least one branch of government was both deeply and broadly intelligent.
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'Governments Must Lead': U.S. Corporations Beg Trump to Stay in Paris Agreement in Full Page NYT Ad [View all]
DonViejo
May 2017
OP
Yes. They have planned on the basis of it being real for about a deacade now. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#12
I read that sometime in the BushCheney admin. Even as they were coddling deniers...
Hekate
May 2017
#21
He can't afford to alienate his ignorant, hateful base. He needs to ensure that his
catbyte
May 2017
#5
He had hoped to enrich himself & his family and pay debt to Russians. It's looking less likely excep
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#13
A genius who doesn't give a shit about our customers, our investors, our communities, and our suppli
IronLionZion
May 2017
#7
Fortune: Even ExxonMobil Wants President Trump to Stick With the Paris Climate Deal
ucrdem
May 2017
#22
True, If they wanted to influence Trump, they would have put ads up on FoxNews.
rgbecker
May 2017
#28