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We're in pretty desperate need of that infrastructure investment anyway (do not spend any time thinking about the age of the gas and water pipes in your city, for example), so we better do it.
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Like fossil fuel use temperance, this will only meaningfully occur when an immediate catastrophe stares us in the face. In the case of warming, it'll be massive refugee influxes from areas no longer habitable. Or perhaps the heat index in Manhattan reaching 130 on average for an entire summer. In the case of infrastructure, it'll be more Flints, perhaps a Johnstown Flood-like event at some huge dam, and electric grids going down regularly.
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This would be far more compelling if there was any indication they knew they were blowing it up.
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They don't care. Behind Door Number 1, they're fucked. Behind Door Number 2, they might still be fucked. But there's a slim chance things could improve. It's only rational if you're, say, a coal miner in WV.
Why people who are doing well are voting for Trump is a more complex question.
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