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[–] fox@hexbear.net 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All these scientists and employees will be gone, permanently, leaving the US unable to operate services critical to national security. Climatology and meteorology are vital to agriculture. Food bills will skyrocket if harvests are blown or even reduced. And saving a few billion on the budget is nothing compared to the economic damage of the Atlantic coast and Gulf states being shredded by hurricanes unpredictably. Like, it's not even climate mitigation, it's tornado sirens telling you to get out of the area.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And it would take 3x what is saved to retrain a workforce and rebuild/repair the infrastructure.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Collapse of empire and accelerated collapse of Earth's biosphere, wonderful!