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I’m hoping given this is the age of information, what’s being burnt is not truly lost and is mirrored/archived somewhere away from his grubby mitts
That’s not the point. The point is the continued devaluation and integrity of information. It doesn’t matter if you had all the information in the world if no one believes it.
Didn’t you know? We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.
I would think all this only temporarily slowed down the global research?
A government sabotaging all the data it can, and eliminating protections on hundreds of things will hurt that country much more in the long run than anything else.
Yes, a run away American environmental damage can make things worse for warming; but much more depends on what other countries can do.
The USA has been foot dragging its response the last generation; and would not have done more than cosmetic enforcement had a more rational government held power. So, unless the Americans really cannot have good government, this will probably spark a backlash, and may begin a true response to the crisis when a halfway competent government wins the tribal wars
