It's likely because the fixes all would impinge on the rights of his constituents--and by that I mean, the rights of his major corporate donors to make money.

His idea is : As long as i and my rich friends live comfortably, fuck the next generation.

What's so hard to understand about this? There is a very popular meme that explains this person's perspective, it has a dog having a cup of coffee in a burning room saying "this is fine"

Simple he is using the 4 stage strategy https://youtu.be/nSXIetP5iak?si=2mQDIfA0n9ZENrsF

“Sure I have cognitive disconnect. I just don’t care though.”

"Climate change is real, and it's a good thing. I hate winter" - him, probably

I mean, at one level it’s more logically valid to say we shouldn’t bother doing anything to compare combat climate change than saying climate change doesn’t exist.

It’s a weird level though.

Same as when you have a cavity but you don’t go to the dentist because you don’t have health insurance and it costs too much and it doesn’t hurt that much right now.

Stage 2 of the four stage strategy.

Or perhaps even stage 3 but somehow even more detached.

This is easily understandable even without cynicism

If one acknowledge a problem and feel 6 of 10 proposed solutions aren't worth the cost, they've opposed a majority of solutions

Let's put it this way, where I live we separate our rubbish between general, recyclable and glass but our council only recycles the glass and dumps the rest in the landfill with the general rubbish...

We see a lot of "do-gooders" out there pretending to do something while achieving the exact opposite. An example: most flagship smartphones now come without a charger but if you want the latest wireless charging tech they're pushing or even the latest fast charging, you're surely going to buy that extra on the same purchase. Now you have two separate devices that used to share the same package now generating twice the amount of rubbish. It makes no sense. These same smartphones now have glued on batteries that can't easily be removed, so both phones and batteries end up in the same bin, where the phones themselves should be going to a separate facility to extract the rate matels it has.

We the simpletons think that the little we do helps but reality is very different...

Follow the money

if global warming is real, why come it still gets cold?

This is a new strategy... I didn't think it could get dumber.

The reasoning is: money good. Polluters give me money. I am the polluters bitch.

GOP is consistently contradictory. So are most dictators and their parties. This fits.

Black Republican too. They'll throw him into the void like they did Herman Cain.

Is the title a EU 4 reference?

Acceleracionists be like

I thought we were past the point of no return so why bother

It makes sense to me - he might think that continued global warming is inevitable and the only choice is between enjoying life while he can and being an environmentalist chump who makes himself miserable while other people burn his share of fossil fuels anyway.