Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has accused President Trump of being a sociopath, while at the same time directing hate speech towards President Trump’s wife daughter and son in law Jared.
Trump’s Climate-Change Sociopathy
Jeffrey Sachs
JUN 7, 2017 24
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement is not just dangerous for the world; it is also sociopathic. Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting harm on others. The declaration by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, that Trump believes in climate change makes matters worse, not better. Trump is knowingly and brazenly jeopardizing the planet.
Trump’s announcement was made with a bully’s bravado. A global agreement that is symmetric in all ways, across all countries of the world, is somehow a trick, he huffed, an anti-American plot. The rest of the world has been “laughing at us.”
These ravings are utterly delusional, deeply cynical, or profoundly ignorant. Probably all three. And they should be recognized as such.
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Here’s more simple truth: With its large, rich, fossil-fuel-intensive economy, the US has done more than any other country to bring about the global peril of climate change, so it should accept its responsibility in helping to get us all out of danger. At a minimum, America should be eagerly cooperating with the rest of the world.
Instead, Trump’s sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe. The next human-caused climate disasters should be named Typhoon Donald, Superstorm Ivanka, and Megaflood Jared. The world will not forget.
What a nasty anger filled rant.
I can understand a climate true believer directing criticism towards President Trump. But to include his family – what influence did Jared have over President Trump’s Paris decision? What did Jared do to be included in Professor Sachs’ nasty rant, other than to have a father in law for whom Professor Sachs cannot contain his hatred?
Update (EW) – h/t Tom Halla corrected Jared’s name
Correction (EW) – I Called Jared President Trump’s son, he is Trump’s son in law. Included President Trump’s wife in the first paragraph.
Correction (EW) – Ivanka is President Trump’s daughter
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Nice try, Sachs, but the Democrats have some real disasters on the books. They are called:
— “Dodd-Frank”
— “Obamacare”
— “Benghazi”
— “Detroit”
and I could go on…..
Here are a couple of points: The President withdrew from the Paris Agreement for economic reasons not because of the climate change issue and said he is open to re-negotiate the financial deal and re-enter into the agreement. He took no position on the climate issue.
His Daughter Ivanka and her husband Jarred, both with offices nearby in the White House are Democrats and personal friends of Al Gore and believe in his climate change frenzy. They had Gore to Trump Tower during the transition and the President-elect sat down with him for an hour. Ivanka did not attend the Rose Garden withdrawal meeting. So to place any blame them, as the writer did, is ridiculous and uninformed.
We skeptics have a huge task ahead of us to reach the President and get him to part with his daughter’s views on this issue. I am happy that three of our best campaigners from Heartland Institute including Joe Bast were invited to the Rose Garden function and that William Happer is still in the running to be the Science Advisor (none has been named as best I know) and that Scott Pruitt is doing great work for we skeptics at the EPA. For more detail see my blog.
High Five to what you said. I agree.
“His Daughter Ivanka and her husband Jarred, both with offices nearby in the White House are Democrats and personal friends of Al Gore and believe in his climate change frenzy. They had Gore to Trump Tower during the transition and the President-elect sat down with him for an hour. Ivanka did not attend the Rose Garden withdrawal meeting. So to place any blame them, as the writer did, is ridiculous and uninformed.”
Uninformed is right. I guess the writer doesn’t ever read the New York Times or the Washington Post. If he did, then he would know that those reporters think Jared and Ivanka were pushing to stay in the Paris Accord.
The U.S. didn’t stay in. What does that say? Does it mean Jared and Ivanka don’t have as much influence in the climate game as the NYT and WP reporters think? Or does it mean that the NYT and WP are wrong and Jared and Ivanka were not pushing the Paris Accord?
After all, all it appears we really have are dubious NYT and WP reporters reporting wishful thinking since there is no public record of either Jared or Ivanka speaking out in support of AGW/CAGW and the Paris Accord. It would be interesting to know the truth of this matter.
+10… all good points
My daughter keeps the books for my businesses. She is very strong minded and stubborn. I am proud of her that she is no push over but of course, I have to deal with her when her views differ from mine. Having known her for over 30 years I understand that I have to be strong myself if I have conviction about an issue. That’s the way it is with strong people.
Imo, that was wise of Trump to state that maybe there can be further discussion. The reason being that it will help to some extent those Republicans who will face elections in 2018 from facing to many possible irate voters, who may hold worries about the AGW story.
His daughter seems to be a fairly typical, bright modern girl. Her mind is no doubt infested with the common eco-Socialist ideology of our universities and her peers but I would expect that she does not like being off side with her father. It would, therefore be a very good thing if she could be persuaded to take a fresh look at the whole issue and talk to some of our best informed and credentialed denizens. How might we arrange that? Pruitt should be trying to achieve that!
For those who don’t know to put their cursor on a person’s name to see if it is a link,
https://johncolemanblog.com/
In a sentence: That’s what Tenure can do to a bag of protein. Make them invincible and better than the riff raff. /sarc. But I digress. I’m usually quite meek.
We could call the next failed climate prediction Nothing Burger Sacks.
All the public liberals seem to have become unhinged, not just this one. They seem to have forgot how to exist in a polite and thoughtful society. They seem to want to create a society full of hate and intolerance where disagreement is not allowed.
It is shameful behavior and I hope people will turn away from it.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs is an ad hominem
Jared is Trump’s son-in-law, not his son.
Just saw your comment after I noticed my mistake, thanks.
“Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting harm on others.”
Where is this imaginary harm?
It’s bad enough when they prophesy that harm is imminent, but to assert ongoing harm that simply doesn’t exist takes a special kind of crazy.
He has definitely harmed individuals who were lining their pockets with tax payer money. Many will be permanently harmed.
Wow!
Jeffrey Sachs is a bad winner and a worse loser.
Not that we’re surprised; just another progressive elite throwing a public childish tantrum.
He does propose a decent idea though.
They might as well use known public personalities to really drive home what disasters are.
How does earthquake Jeff Sachs sound? Perhaps, refer to the next deadly tsunami as the “Sachs Tsunami”?
Or issue “containment pool jeff disaster” warnings?
On a closer note, there would be other event names like “reallyskeptical dust devil” attacked a playground; or “bby ben kiddie pool disaster”. Perhaps “vvussels bustle failure”?
Sachs is not qualified to describe sociopathic behavior or diagnose it. He is outside of his field of competency.
Richmind —
He has a field of competency? In what?
It has been established that if you display high intellectual abilities in one area then you are probably competent in others.
But the reverse seems also true. Showing incompetence in one area probably means you are incompetent in all others. Have we not seen Sach’s total incompetence on display?
Eugene WR Gallun
Takes one to know one……
According to this logic, the 1900 Galveston hurricane, which killed between 7000 & 12,000 people, should be renamed Hurricane McKinley because Pres. William McKinley was allowing Americans to burn too much coal and wood for heating and cooking. In addition, the Tri-States tornado of 1925 which killed nearly 700 in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and destroyed 10,000 homes and buildings should be called Tornado Coolidge because Pres. Calvin Coolidge also was allowing too much wood, coal and unleaded gasoline to be burned. Chances are good that Sachs is one of these academics that was getting generous research grants for some dead end climate studies under the Obama administration and now sees these drying up. That’s the real reason for his ranting, not the planet’s welfare.
That would be Hurricane Edward VII since in 1900, England was still the leading industrial world power, and most likely carbon polluter.
That would be Hurricane Edward VII since in 1900, England was still the leading industrial world power, and most likely carbon polluter.
What about all the people who froze to death during the Little Ice Age because not enough coal, wood and gas was burnt to maintain the world’s temperature? who are we naming that after?
Actually it should have been called Hurricane Victoria since she was still the British monarch in 1900 and had been since 1837.
We have a bunch of academic wusses calling President Trump a sociopath. He’s actually a warrior but they wouldn’t know the difference. He’s a lot like Andrew Jackson. The academic wusses don’t like him either.
According to the Annual Report,
Jeffery Sachs’ daughter “Lisa” is another “Director” as in another head of this institute in addition to Jeffery Sachs’…
http://ccsi.columbia.edu/files/2013/10/CCSI-Annual-Report-2015-2016-FINAL.pdf
And his Wife is “Sonia” is the “Director, Health Sector” …
http://csd.columbia.edu/who-we-are/our-team/
And the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Association just gave him $10 million to set up this institute. (After he was a “special Advisor to Ban Ki-Moon on something climate related).
http://jeffreysachs.center/columns-op-eds/unsdsn-announces-launch-jeffrey-d-sachs-center-sustainable-development
I “hate” doing this kind of thing but everytime I just look a little deeper at this climate change science, this is what pops out.
Bill,
You find the same corrupt incestuousness throughout government. Just look at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
They’re all rackets, in which “Power to the People!” means “Money to Me and My Friends!”
And THEN Lisa Sach’s is the “Co-Chair” of the United Nations Sustainable Development Network Solutions Association thematic solutions something. ???? $10 million to her own organization ???
http://ccsi.columbia.edu/author/lsachs/
Call Comey in.
Oh right. Not there anymore. Does anyone think there is serious problem here that needs investigation?
Yes, Bill. The industry of NGO’s and other tax dodging institutes make all of who actually work pay more taxes to support their condescending bullshit lives.
The big crisis is that we have a government funding teat shortage and too many piglets.
Great catch – keep telling about it.
You know, I “hate” to admit it, but for 10 million dollars I’m willing to state that humans are causing climate change, too.
I’ll be lying, but I’ll also be laughing all the way to the bank.
Good detective work, congratulations. The swamp, indeed.
As if “rent seeking” leaches aren’t bad enough at the national level, this leach wants to suck on the international teat.
He is also a “climate advisor” to the Pope!
He’s still pissed off that his massive planned welfare state has been a complete disaster. Just remember that the original WMD is government.
Tsk Task —
I am stealing that. There is a poem there. — maybe cover up the theft a bit by saying — the most dangerous Weapon Of Mass Destruction is big government.
Good poet borrow. Great poets steal. Don’t expect credit.
Eugene WR Gallun
Good old politics, the biggest growth industry on the planet.
Recruiting now.
Yet he didn’t tell me just how less intense typhoons would be if Paris was followed. Go figure.
Did I miss the announcement that politicians can now cure a rainy day ?
So you have Jeffrey Sachs, who sounds like a psychopath, calling the President a sociopath? This man has some deep-seated paranoia disorders. Is he afraid of alien invasions, too?
Here’s more simple truth: With its large, rich, fossil-fuel-intensive economy, the US has done more than any other country to bring about the global peril of climate change
As a non-American, I must rise to the defense of the United States.
This is the country that pulled the world from the clutches of ultimate evil, not once but THREE TIMES. Twice against Germany and their allies, and after the second time, enabled the rebuilding of not just our allies, but of our enemies as well, turning Germany and Japan into democracies wedded to a peaceful (and prosperous!) existence with the rest of the world. The third time, the Unite States defeated the USSR, fighting them to a stand still through the cold war, and ultimately bringing about the collapse of a regime that may well have murdered three times as many people as did the Nazis, and did so without a global war.
The United States has brought about the longest period of stability and economic growth since the Roman Empire, and possibly, ever in history depending on what criteria you use to measure these things.
If the United States has done more than any other country to bring about the global peril of climate change, then I must observe that the entire free world (much of which would not be free without the United States) has gone along with the whole affair with enthusiastic zeal. For every fictitious nickle of damage that rests upon the shoulders of the United States, the world has benefited a thousand times over.
Thank you America.
I’m another non American who vigorously defends this country. I can’t go to my own gov to see the things done that need to be done. They are in the bag with the тоталэтаяуаиz of elitist world govnance. I don’t even watch our broken news organs anymore.
Thank you both. It is nice to hear foreigners say something nice about my country instead of winging.
All the excess hypothermia deaths in the UK this winter due to sustainabilitized fuel poverty should be called ‘Jeffrey Sachs’ voluntary homicides.’
All the birds and bats mangled to death by sustainabilitized windmills and the birds fried to death at sustainable Tonopah should be called ‘Jeffrey Sachs’ sanctimony slaughter.’
All the tax money siphoned off benefiting eco-troughers should be called ‘Jeffrey Sachs’ sustainability stealage.’
The smooth educated face of modern evil — suffused with the inner glow of righteous intent.
I seem to be angry. Can’t imagine why.
Most only manage to pave the road to hell with their good intentions. Jeffrey Sachs drives the steamroller than smooths it out.
Only the best and the brightest 7-year-old spoiled brats at the UN!
Human-caused climate disaster? Whatever, punk.
The way I see it is that Sachs is preaching to the faithful, who are in full agreement with him. But in my opinion as their language becomes more extreme and their claims of disaster more outlandish and irrational, ordinary people will be able to identify the likes of Sachs as nutty alarmists with no real credibility. Either scientific or moral.
Nuttiness is fine with me as long as I’m not paying for it.
First of all, anyone who is so ignorant that they think that a typhoon, superstorm, or megaflood is a “climate disaster” rather than “weather” has no business commenting on anything related to weather or climate.
Going after a person’s children is reprehensible, regardless of the age of the child(ren). One might even say it is vicious. In this case, it is also nonsensical, as both Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner supposedly encouraged the president to remain in the agreement. Now they are problems?
As usual, most, if not all of Sachs’ arguments could apply to AGW advocates. It really galls me that people insist on wasting time and money on crap like the Paris Accords while ignoring actual immediate problems. Concerned about desertification? Tackle land management, since practices like overgrazing are the major culprit. Endangered species? Tackle poaching, poverty, and land use. Deforestation? Tackle poverty, land use and management, and provide affordable energy. Air pollution? Replace aging power plants and factories with more efficient ones, and tackle poverty. Access to clean water? Provide affordable energy for larger scale water projects (treatment plants, pipes, etc.) and tackle poverty. See a pattern? Poverty, poor land management, lack of affordable energy. These are three of the biggest threats to people and the environment.
Self-appointed elites are going on luxury vacations where they castigate the general public for daring to want to have affordable, reliable energy. Governments are blowing money on “renewables” that are not particularly environmentally friendly, affordable, or reliable. “Scientists” are rejecting observations that do not support their assumptions and projections, and advocating massive spending on projects that will have negligible effects on temperatures (at best) according to their rosiest projections and negatively affect people’s lives according to all projections.
Talk about willfully inflicting harm on others, corruption, disdain, and sociopathic behavior.
Well said. Sachs, and apparently most of his family, are enriching themselves greatly with tax payer money off of the great climate fear while doing nothing to actually help people or the environment….or the climate.
Sachs can add ‘Counter Punch Pruitt’ to his list.
EPA Delays Obama Air Pollution Rule
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/08/epa-delays-obama-air-pollution-rule/
“Pruitt stated that his decision to delay the air pollution rule relies on a stipulation in the Clean Air Act that would allow the agency to suspend rules up to a year if the agency has “insufficient information” to make compliance decisions.
EPA chief Pruitt said that the agency will undertake a review of the rule in response to Republican states and industry suing the Obama-era EPA. Pruitt himself was part of the lawsuit when he was Oklahoma’s attorney general.”
“Director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network”
This title is a meaningful as “Director of Columbia’s Center for Unicorn Development and of the UN Unicorn Development Solutions Network”.
Unicorns do not exist. Sustainability also does not exist. Yet, the whacky world of modern environmentalism is founded on the belief that nature, sans humans, is some kind of perfectly balanced, unchanging harmonious construct. While this assumption is completely irrational, it is widely and subtly accepted without argument or discussion. Given this faith-based environment, words like ‘sustainability’ become a form of virtue. But in the real world, the only thing that is truly sustainable is death, and one can even argue that isn’t even true.
Life, by definition, is change. If there is life, there is change happening. Even if there is no life, change is happening, but usually at a slower pass. Living worlds, like our lovely Earth, are very dynamic and always have been. The life forms that do best in this environment are the ones that are most adaptable. There is name for those life forms that fail to adapt to this dynamically changing planet. They are called ‘extinct’!
In reality, any life form that needs things to be ‘sustainable’, has a death sentence. If sustainability is what Jeffrey Sachs wants for humanity, then we should give him the titles that he truly deserves: Director of Columbia’s Center for Death Development and of the UN Death Development Solutions Network.
At least that would be honest.
He should be very familiar with the legacy he is part of: Spanish Inquisition; Cromwell’s New Army; SS; KGB; etc.
Nothing wrong with Cromwell’s New Army…
Cromwell is a great British historical figure.
Like Churchill who was a profound supporter of eugenics and supported the “Feeble Minded Persons” act of 1912. Maybe some of your coal mining forebears would have been save by that bill (Thankfully never passed in to law)? We now have the, unelected, EU to do same. Ever wonder why most Brits want out of the EU?
And Genghis Khan is a great Mongolian historical figure.