The Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Strange illusions shape Trumps views. In trying to protect America, he may unleash a killer that already claims 200,000 lives each year.

This bias helps explain why Trump has left the Paris Climate Agreement, with potentially disastrous implications for climate change.

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Why do people believe Trump? And why is he so confident, even when demonstrably wrong?

Cognitive biases:
The Dunning-Kruger effect: 00.00
Salience bias (1.01): https://youtu.be/rW9R6jgE7SQ?t=60
The mere exposure effect (2.36): https://youtu.be/rW9R6jgE7SQ?t=156

Health and economic benefits of reduced air pollution (the EPA Clean Air Act):
https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-costs-clean-air-act-1990-2020-second-prospective-study

MIT study on the impact of air pollution: http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-early-deaths-each-year-in-the-us-0829

Jonathan Levy, a professor of environmental health at Boston University:
“A public-health burden of this magnitude clearly requires significant policy attention... We have certainly invested significant societal resources to address far smaller impacts on public health.”

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