Essay by Eric Worrall
I could read this stuff for hours.
‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint
Allies and advisers have hinted at a more methodical second term: driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules
Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor Tue 6 Feb 2024 22.00 AEDT
The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried.
A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even more extreme for the environment than his first, according to interviews with multiple Trump allies and advisers.
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“Trump will undo everything [Joe] Biden has done, he will move more quickly and go further than he did before,” said Myron Ebell, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team for Trump’s first term. “He will act much more expeditiously to impose his agenda.”
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He would, his allies say, also scrap government considerations of the damage caused by carbon emissions; compel a diminished EPA to squash pollution rules for cars, trucks and power plants; and symbolically nullify the Paris climate agreement by not only withdrawing the US again but sending it to the Senate for ratification as a treaty, knowing it would fail.
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“A return of Trump would be, in a word, horrific,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official, now fellow at the University of New Hampshire.
“It would also be incredibly stupid. It would roll back progress made over decades to protect public health and safety, there is no logic to it other than to destroy everything. People who support him may not realize it’s their lives at stake, too.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/trump-climate-change-fossil-fuels-second-term
I must admit, a part of me feels a little sorry for people suffering such extreme fear of climate change and the coming Trump presidency, despite the harm their ideas have inflicted on the rest of us.
It’s like watching a mistreated pet rabbit which has been stuck in a cramped cage so long, instead of leaping for freedom when the door to the cage is opened, it just sits there crying. But there is very little we can do to help them escape the psychological cage of their own making, they have to take the first step.
How Trump’s opponents can keep sounding the climate alarm when this very website just a few days ago reported on the highlights of the United Nations’ latest FAO report. It provided figures showing that world cereal crop production reached a new record high in 2023 of 2.836 million tonnes, a 1.2% increase over the previous record from the year before. At the same time, the global population and life expectancy are also increasing and infant mortality is dropping. So if there’s any sort of climate crisis, who’s it actually affecting and how?
They don’t care about the truth, never did – they are a bunch of fascists working to impose a social ‘paradise’.
Remember fascists are just communists who dress better… and like peeing on their girlfriends.
“ they have to take the first step.” Their psyche is SO damaged, they’ll never learn to walk.
AS a first priority I want to vote for any candidate who will reverse the climate scam policies
WB Yeats.
How ironic that the poem you quote is “The Second Coming” but you should’ve quoted it in full – here are another couple of apt lines:
“The ceremony of innocence is drowned,
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
AntiFa, BLM, the Stinkies, JustStopBeingIdiots, “climate science™”, the trans agenda, democrats….. etc etc etc,
That is why Trump is needed.
You sound scared of everything.
Russia will help:
https://newrepublic.com/post/172710/russia-build-safe-space-conservative-americans-move
You sound STUPID of everything !
No-one can help.
But it is great to know you support AntiFa, the Stinkies, JustStupid and BLM.. and of course the democrats… (all parts of the same)
Just like the good little leftist cretin you are.
Sounds great to me. Bring it on.
Rather than “He would, his allies say, also scrap government considerations of the damage caused by carbon emissions”. I would prefer “He would initiate a government review of the benefits of carbon dioxide emissions”. Otherwise they will go on thinking that CO2 is all bad.
OK, there were two things wrong with what I just said – 1. ‘thinking’, 2. the idea that they wouldn’t just go on not thinking.
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!
Trump cares about how the environment impacts Americans.
He (not Joe Biden) has visited the environmentally damaged East Palestine – and from his own pocket supplied them with essentials … unlike FEMA and the entire Biden Administration.
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He has no interest in hurting Americans – whereas the current POTATUS does not care – one whit.
Music to my ears!
In his second term I hope Trump does much more to stop the climate insanity.
I also hope that, despite his words, he continues to support Ukraine and help protect its people against the barbarism of Putin and Russia.
I’ve often wondered how much he knows about the actual science. His comments about climate change are fairly accurate and puts him in mainstream sceptical opinion. He stated that there has been global warming but that it might not last forever, which is pretty well spot on.
But does he know that much of the science – and particularly the scientific data – strongly supports his position?
I would love to see this scene: as president, Trump stands in front of the cameras and takes out a piece of paper. He shows it to the cameras: the plot of EMDAT data showing that global deaths from extreme weather has dramatically fallen over the last 100 years and is today at historically very low levels. Or graphs showing that in the US wildfires and heatwaves were far worse in the 1930’s.
Sadly it looks like the UK is headed in the opposite direction. This year the present Tory government, which is barking mad on climate and nut zero, will probably be replaced by a Labour government which is even more barking mad. Win some, lose some….
Chris
“I also hope that, despite his words, he continues to support Ukraine and help protect its people against the barbarism of Putin and Russia.”
I think he will. Notice that Trump’s criticism of the war in Ukraine is not about American support but about European support, which Trump complains is sorely lacking. Trump says the U.S. has contributed $200 billion to Ukraine, while the EU has contributed about $20 billion. Trump wants the EU to up their game, just like when he complained that NATO nations were not meeting their obligations under the treaty. After he complained, NATO nations increased their contributions. The NATO Secretary General loves Trump, because Trump got him all that extra money to spend on NATO defense.
So if Trump gets elected you can expect that he will tell the EU to pony up on its support of Ukraine.
The best way Trump can help the people of Ukraine is to end the war as fast as possible – the longer it drags on, the fewer Ukraine people there will be. Already there are reports of Ukraine front-line units being critically short of soldiers and this will get worse and worse.
“The best way Trump can help the people of Ukraine is to end the war as fast as possible”
That’s what Trump is saying, too.
The question will be, will Ukraine stop fighting before they have reclaimed all their lost territory? What will they settle for?
If anyone can make a deal, it would be Trump, imo.
I don’t live in the US but I really can’t understand why Americans have any doubt about who to vote for. I realize that whatever Trump pays his hair stylist is too much but, other than that, he made – and makes – more sense than all of his political detractors put together. The deluge of political persecution he faces is enough to vote for him in the first place as far as I can see. But will your political oligarchs allow him to win again? Or will he, like Putin, manage to curb their power? At least you Americans are getting an idea of what it’s like living in parts of Africa, S. America and Asia – and we’re all waiting to find out what you decide to do.
“At least you Americans are getting an idea of what it’s like living in parts of Africa, S. America and Asia – and we’re all waiting to find out what you decide to do.”
Yes, we are, and we are not liking it very much.
We are all waiting to see what happens.
So far, it looks like Trump is winning, and all these charges the Biden administration have lodged against him are going to fall apart. The U.S. Supreme court is going to rule in Trump’s favor against radical Democrats who are trying to keep his name off State ballots, and I believe they will be ruling in Trump’s favor on several other counts in the near future.
Trump just keeps getting stronger with each attack.
I certainly hope you are right but your Supreme Court didn’t seem too interested in the 2020 election result? What is there to stop that happening again?; smear and jail Trump?, arrange for him to have an unfortunate accident?, declare a national emergency and martial law using your New! Improved! military to defend American democracy against the MAGA monster? Or will We The People prevail.
I’m on your side. In the end, what you Americans do affects all of us. As far as I’m concerned, every American who votes for Trump this year votes for me.
Somehow all those 56,000 Iowans who drove through 20 below cold after a blizzard to their caucus were not afraid of either Trump or climate change.
It’s now 50 degrees and sunny in the Chicago area, but snowing in Salt Lake City (which is farther south). Winter weather can fluctuate wildly with the jet stream. If you live east or south of the jet stream, mild air comes up from the south. If you live west or north of the jet stream, cold air comes down from the Arctic.
But air can’t accumulate in the Arctic. If too much mild air comes north along one meridian, cold polar air must go south along another meridian. Weather stations can put out 30-year or 50-year averages for each date, but in any given winter there is a lot of variation on both sides of the averages, and an unusually mild winter in one area is balanced by an unusually cold winter in another area.
“but in any given winter there is a lot of variation on both sides of the averages, and an unusually mild winter in one area is balanced by an unusually cold winter in another area.”
That is exactly right.
Are republicans finally growing a spine and willing to fight back? I don’t think it can be stated much more clearly than this.
https://prod-static.gop.com/media/TRANSFORMATIVE-ENERGY-FREEDOM-POLICY-FOR-AMERICA.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Agreed truly horrific! Why should our liberty & happiness be truncated to some idiotic fear mongering narrative. Cheap energy is the only way marginalize the green narrative. When the propaganda campaign goes into hyperdrive in response to a movement to cheap energy……. it must be countered with giving people a vision of a good life on cheap clean natural gas, young couples with babies etc..
In 1996 when gas was 77 cents in PA after decades at $1.44 or higher, did anyone really care about global warming? Green liberal politicians spouting the need for $5 gas were totally ignored.
Then Obama gave us $5 gas and then Biden almost succeeded at $5 gas by going after the Saudi prince his first week in office. The Biden back tracked and tried to play nice with the prince but the Prince ignored him and aligned himself with Putin. How dumb is that?
Now with the trouble in the middle east Biden has the grand opportunity to play nice with the prince again to ensure Mecca will safe from the Iraqi and Iranian Shiites but nothing like that is happening. Meanwhile Putin is pulling the strings and us consumers are paying way too high heating oil, gas prices and taxes on gas.
Let’s cast off the healthcare, climate, energy, woke fear mongering and division and deal with reality, it is the only healthy thing we can do for America. The reality is our energy markets are politically leveraged, colluded and controlled…. lets fight it.
Horrific, indeed. Under Trump’s leadership we had the best economy, gas prices, employment rate, Supreme Court, foreign policy, trade policy, energy policy, in as long as I can remember and the best enforcement of illegal immigration ever. Under Biden? Yeah, horrific, starting from day one when he immediately repealed many of the things that Made America Great Again. Democrats and leftists keep projecting the disasters they themselves create with their dysfunctional policies on Trump. They’re the horror.
All I want Trump 2 to do is force a public debate, sponsored and administered by the Justice dept, anyone not showing to be jailed for ignoring summons.
Piltdown Mann
Gavin Schmidt
Andrew Dessler
And pick’em
vs whoever stands up.
It runs until one side admits defeat.
The greatest good Trump can do, a public airing.
Because it’s what they fear the most.