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
So, while this man has an important influence or want to have that over the UN global governance policies, my question is where is the voting box where I can vote him out?
Sachs, extremist Professor John Schnellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (who said in 2009 at a climate conference in Copenhagen that if we let global warming continue, six billion of the seven billion people on earth will be killed by it – which he commented on the side might be a good thing), Naomi Oreskes and Naomi Klein were among the advisors to Pope Paul on his call for action on climate change (the encyclical Laudato SI). Other real climate experts who travelled to Rome to try and counter the marxist, radical message, were blocked by Bishop Sorondo, a fellow Argentine advisor to Pope Francis and a well known radical https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/one-man-close-to-the-pope-responsible-for-so-much-evil-in-the-vatican.
I didn’t realize that Columbia University has taken to hiring flat out ignorant liars like the incredibly stupid Professor Sachs. If there is one thing everyone agrees on in all this, is that global temperatures have litle to no relationship with cyclonic weather events. I also doubt that Columbia can provide a definition of “sustainable development,” much less why they believe it to be important. If the argument is that we will someday run out of a certain fuel, so what? Any equipment that uses that fuel has an “unsustainable” lifespan, so why does one think that one should use a “sustainable,” very expensive fuel in preference to the unsustainable cheap fuel? In almost every case, sustainability is an insignificant reason for preferring one thing over another.
Jeffrey Sachs has expertise in disaster.
“Soros, in turn, had connections with a young economist whom he had been funding—Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. The U.S. Agency for International Development assigned Sachs’ Institute to oversee Russia’s transformation to a market economy after more than seven decades of communism. As a consequence of this assignment, Sachs and his team essentially represented the United States as official economic advisors to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Soros worked closely with Sachs on this project, and the pair held enormous sway over Yeltsin.152 So great was their influence, in fact, that on one occasion Soros quipped that “the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.”153 But before long, members of Sachs’s team became involved in massive corruption, exploiting for personal gain their access to Russia’s political and economic leaders. Their actions contributed to the collapse of the Russian economy and to the diversion of some $100 billion out of the country.154 Though Sachs himself was not accused of profiting personally from these activities, he resigned as director of the Harvard Institute in May 1999, under a dark cloud of scandal.155 The U.S. House Banking Committee investigated the matter and called Soros to testify. The billionaire denied culpability but admitted that he had used insider access in an illegal deal to acquire a large portion of Sidanko Oil.156 Soros further acknowledged in Congressional testimony that some of the missing Russian assets had made their way into his personal investment portfolio.157 House Banking Committee chairman Jim Leach characterized the entire sordid affair as “one of the greatest social robberies in human history.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
[Sobering. .mod]
After being involved in disastrous campaigns in Russia and Africa (the last recounted in The Idealist. Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, by Nina Munk), one would think that Sachs might be a tad more circumspect – about making any claims about anything. But in that case he probably wouldn’t have gotten in over his head in the first place.
Professor Sachs works at Columbia University, plenty of room there for a 450ft wind turbine, lots of rooftops for solar panels, with Sachs commitment to renewable energy he could not complain if Trump converted the university to run only on wind and sun.