In his first term as president, Donald Trump pulled America out of the Paris climate accords. He downplayed the dangers and even denied the existence of climate change. He reversed, revoked, rolled back and dismantled more than 100 policies governing climate change, clean air and water, wildlife and toxic chemicals.
In his first administration, Trump appointed a number of nominees with close ties to the coal, oil, gas and chemical industries.
In his recent campaign for a second tilt at the presidency, Trump said, “On day one I will tell Pennsylvania energy workers to frack, frack, frack, and drill, drill, drill, baby, drill.”
Trump has voiced skepticism about electric vehicles but has also said Elon Musk will have a role in his second administration because of Musk’s Republican endorsement.
Quote from Dan Lashof, the Director of the respected World Resources Institute:
“There is no denying that another Trump presidency will stall national efforts to tackle the climate crisis and protect the environment…. One can only hope that Donald Trump will put conspiracy theories to the side and take the decisive action to address the climate crisis that the American people deserve. But I won’t hold my breath, and neither will the global community nor U.S. state and local leaders.”
I’m sorry for getting political and no doubt some of you reading this will disagree but I reckon that if we’re not worried, perhaps we should be?
Normal service will resume shortly.
PS: President elect Donald Trump has just appointed former congressman Lee Zeldin as his head of the Environment Protection Agency. Zeldin has a political science and law background. He has a reputation for voting against environment protection bills. Trump has said he is looking to reverse many EPA rules.
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