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SECTION 18
IS THERE A FATAL CONTRADICTION
IN TRUMP'S CLIMATE POLICY?
Version 1 ... February 2025

2:25:01
really trouncing us and even the LA wildfires and that is Trump's climate
change policies because I mean here are the the here's
the sort of tangle that I see one uh it seems like climate change I mean some

Is There a Fatal Contradiction in Trump’s Climate Policy?

2:25:22
people on on the right for instance don't believe that there is any right but it might prove an existential
issue for us as evidenced by La again ostensibly but then on the other hand as
far as economic competition goes it seems like some of our competitors aren't beholden to the
same climate change measures that we've been taking in the United States and so
repealing them might better enable us to compete with the countries to whom we're
seeding our dominance there's a risk that the climate people are right

2:26:05
and that the rising temperature of the oceans and pollution levels are very
dangerous for our future there's a risk they're right there's also a risk that the people who
don't believe any of that are right I agree I don't know first of all I'm not
such a scientist I'm not up on all of that I see a risk on both
sides but I must say it seems obvious to me that we'd be better
off not risking that the right wing is correct let's take the other one let's
do the steps we think will help because if they if it's right it's
our existence rather than than play Russian roulette with the right wing and
say well it's not certain so let's not worry about

2:27:04
it what what why would you do that I don't understand and when you
look at who's spending the money to convince everybody then it becomes obvious doesn't it it's Exxon and mobile
and all the U is the rightwing together with the big businesses that are funding
them so for me oh boy so on the one hand we have alarmist scientists I get it and
they may be alarmist Beyond what's appropriate that's possible I understand there's a risk that that's
wrong but on the other hand I see self-interested corporations promoting
something that holds on to the profit of their fossil fuel foundations uh and people who are saying
it might be wrong but I'm saying yeah it might be wrong but wouldn't we be better off taking steps to deal with it than

2:28:05
not I don't get I don't see what reputation there is to this so I end up
with the people who want to do stuff about it who want to limit our and since
I see it dovetailing with other things it I think the private car is a
ridiculous notion we oughtn't to do that the single largest polluter of air is
the automobile exhaust so you know for me let's have public
transportation let's go back to the collective housing we once had back at the end of World War II and that was a
serious project here in the United States let's take the steps that would
mitigate global warming and all the of it because that's the
lesser the path that makes more sense and in order to say that I don't have to

2:29:00
denounce the people who are skeptical about all of it I I understand Bas it's
Bas is to be skeptical I don't like the lineup of who's telling me to be SK
skeptical but I I understand the Skeptics may be right I don't want to get into position where I know
scientific that I'm not going there my liberal friends do that they don't need me and I don't agree with them anyway
about it does it for me that's Mr Trump has made his decision he
panders to the fossil fuel he panders to the audience that those companies have
created for him the because the establishment politically adopted at
least a public commitment to climate control attacking the establishment
works if he attacks you know he attacks this is the elitists in California who

2:30:00
give a about all of this you know he's he is a one trick
pony Mr Trump you could see it when they had the awful American Airlines army
helicopter crash in Washington DC few days ago and Mr Trump has to talk About
It by blaming the diversity equality
inclusion movement for having created the inadequate airport management you
know extra you know it it's it that goes back to Victor Davis Hansen and Los
Angeles Wildfire response the same idea that it's this leftwing ideological
captured incompetence that has caused a lot of should air traffic
controllers yeah as I said it's a one trick point it this is an attempt to
make it look when you asked me earlier why do I do economics I showed you

2:31:08
that I hope I did I hope I showed you that I'm not arguing that economics is
more important than anything else I don't believe it is I never had mhm I
focus on it no question but not because it's the most important thing I focus on
it because it was the excluded taboo issue and that Drew me and I still think
that's the Americans are afraid of thinking and talking about the economics
of things because of where it takes you and what it where the political end of
that conversation is I think that's why they they hold back from it
but Hansen that's a different AR he focuses on you know these elitism or

2:32:00
the because he really thinks that's the key item he he actually think the key
item I don't think the economics are the key item of anything but I am
struck by the exclusion of the economic dimension of
things it's it's extraordinary and I I'm going to talk about that because you
don't want to I I think that has something to teach us and I'm going to
stress that but I'm not going to say this is the cause so if anthon and I
were were debating he would say this is why it happened and because you the elite and then not me I'm not going to
no no didn't bad it was this you know well if you're ever in the the bay
area again maybe I could arrange I go there every I go to the Bay Area as
often as I can I really find it a wonderful place I like that City I admit

2:33:02
I like the climate I like the ocean I like it's just a people are very
friendly it's a very attractive place for me but New
York City is also even don't have those qualities you know I like New Orleans I
like New York I like San Francisco the other thing I I wanted to bring up

How Will AI Affect China and America’s Economic War?

2:33:24
right now isn't so much a a policy issue but just a a a broader domestic economic
issue going forward and one that I think your Marxist or marxian you've been
using that word analysis might be really helpful with it also connects to deep
seek automation electric vehicles and that is the role of Advan ments in AI