Following his failure to kill—sorry, liberate—millions of Americans by effectively taking away their health insurance, Donald Trump on Tuesday decided to dream bigger, setting his sights on the destruction of the entire planet with an an executive order intended to roll back several key Obama-era climate-change policies. Flanked by coal miners, Vice-President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and anti-environment Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, Trump put pen to paper and declared victory over liberal snowflakes everywhere. “My administration is putting an end to the war on coal,” he said, promising to end the “crushing attack” on the energy industry by killjoy regulators.

In Trump’s mind, bringing back a smattering of jobs is more important than addressing the very real and detrimental effects of climate change. Even if the coal industry is dying—thanks natural-gas boom—and those mining jobs are rapidly disappearing anyway. Per The New York Times:

Coal miners should not assume their jobs will return if Trump’s regulations take effect. The new order would mean that older coal plants that had been marked for closing would probably stay open for a few years longer, extending the demand for coal, said Robert W. Godby, an energy economist at the University of Wyoming.

But even so, “the mines that are staying open are using more mechanization,” he said. “They’re not hiring people,” he continued. “So even if we saw an increase in coal production, we could see a decrease in coal jobs,” he added.

Unfortunately, “accelerating the decline of the planet and making bold claims about growing jobs while not actually growing jobs” doesn’t fit neatly on one of those red hats. Back to the drawing board, re-election staffers!

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Area 24-year-old about to find out what it’s like “when a pack of hyenas take down a young wildebeest”

Ray Dalio is the 67-year-old founder of Bridgewater Associates, a Westport, Connecticut–based hedge fund with $150 billion in assets under management. A number of years back, Dalio wrote Principles, which serves as the company’s unofficial handbook and includes maxims like “Firing people is not a big deal,” “Ask yourself whether you’ve earned the right to have an opinion,” “Pain + reflection = progress,” and a metaphor about why tearing one’s colleague to shreds in full view of the company is actually the right thing to do, much like how “when a pack of hyenas take down a young wildebeest,” it might “seem” cruel, but in actuality “is good for both the hyenas who are operating in their self-interest and the interest of the greater system, including those of the wildebeest, because killing and eating the wildebeest fosters evolution (i.e., the natural process of improvement).”