Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world | Climate science scepticism and denial
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Six years after Donald Trump wrote a obscene birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, he put his name for something that looks almost shocking: a letter calling for action in the climate crisis.
Trump, a real estate developer and reality TV personality in 2009, was among a group of business leaders behind the page. Advertising in New York Times The call for legislation “controlling climate change is an immediate difficulty faced by the United States and the world today”. The US should lead to clean energy to avoid “disaster and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.
The letter today is shocking. The world continues to be politically surprised in response to the climate crisis, but clean energy is exploding, Responsible for almost all new energy capacity and drawing Double the investment Global fossil fuels. As business leaders in 2009 will now state, the market has changed.
Mostly, Trump has become the leading fossil fuel defender of the planet, and threw the power of the US Presidency into a back protection war to unite the world in a flammable carbon age. To eliminate climate deterioration, collective effort has no more rival than Trump.
When world leaders come together for the UN climate talks in Brazil next month, it will be evident that Trump’s hostility towards climate action will increase. US Department of Foreign Affairs interested in climate negotiations abolished As “unnecessary ,, if any, it makes them uncertain who represents the world’s leading economic and military superpower.
As in his first period, Trump withdrew the US again from the Paris Climate Agreement, opened more land and water for oil and gas drilling, and began to dismantle fresh air protection that would prevent thousands of deaths in the United States. These feedback, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, the president of Lee Zeldin put him cheerfully, “Climate change will continue to a share from the heart of religion”.
However, Trump’s last spell in the White House went further to the extremes that surprised many viewers.
Instead of strengthening a fossil fuel industry that generously donates to the election campaign, Trump began to block clean energy projects: the already approved open sea wind floor, eliminating wind and solar energy from federal lands and delivering new tax -receiver dollars to revitalize fresh tax -receiver dollars).
“We are definitely in a different environment than we are under Trump’s administration,” he said. Kim CarnahanTrump’s first period of the United States for the main climate negotiator.
“Instead of building it focuses on removing.
Trump, who was not satisfied with the republican free market orthodox in the US energy market, tried to intervene in climate policies of other countries, to sew England to sew the wind turbines and to scold enough oil because he loved enough oil. He also pushed the EU to accept To buy $ 750 billion (£ 550 billion) in US oil and gas in the next three years, and at the same time striking fossil fuel agreements Japan And South Korea.
In the UN speech last month, Stony -faced leaders, “Countries are on the brink of destruction due to green energy agenda,” he said. “If you don’t get away from this green deception, your country will fail.
The president also tried to reconnect the language around energy and climate. In 2011, Trump, who was radicalized by disgusting to watch the wind turbines from the Scottish golf field, called the wind energy “ugly”, “disgusting” and “painful”. The climate crisis is a “scam” with his words.
The administration cut or hidden inappropriate climatic research, deleted the government websites of climate change, and even created a faulty study in their own situations, and even despite Trump’s assumed support for the free speech, he prepared a list of prohibited terms such as “decarbonization”, “sustainable”, “emissions” and “green”. Only reporting of greenhouse gas emissions now Verboten– more.
Meanwhile, fossil fuels were branded again. Im I have a small order in the White House, Tr Trump said to the UN. “Never use the word ‘coal’, just use ‘clean, beautiful coal’ words. It sounds much better, right?”
All this slowed down the adoption of clean energy in the USA: in the first half of the year, frightening businesses closed or minimized It costs more than 22 billion dollars in clean energy projects, most of the Republican regions.
As a result, energy prices are increasing for Americans; And while the US heating emissions with the planet are still falling, it is expected to worsen its sluggish descents in the coming years.
Experts said this agenda was surprising even in Trump’s own conditions. The president talked about the work and the new generation of need to “dominate ve and to feed AI data centers, and he still reduced it by trying to stamped renewable energies.
Abraham Silverman, an energy expert at the University of Johns Hopkins, said, orum If you are serious about American energy domination, you need to deploy, talk and deploy. ”
“When these are often the fastest and cheapest sources, it is surprising and strange to say that wind and solar energy does not have a role in the American system. There is a real tension in the main messages of the administration.”
The US government abandoning climate concerns reveals broader questions about America’s place in the world. In the geopolitical struggle with China, two different visions are launched to the rest of the world: the fossil fuels launched by the planet’s largest oil and gas manufacturer, or probably clean energy components in China.
“Trump continues to embarrass the United States on a global stage and weaken Americans’ interests at home,” Joe Biden’s best climate adviser, Joe Biden’s best climate consultant.
McCarthy believes that American cities and states depend on climate action can help fill the gap It was left by the federal government. Even if Trump tries to prevent states from reducing pollution, markets and six governments will continue to change. However, from China’s point of view, the race to shape energy and thus changing the general orbit of this century may have already finished.
Li Shuo, a Chinese Climate Policy Specialist at the Asian Community Policy Institute, said, Tr Trump’s Biden’s signature climate draft disintegrate the inflation reduction law, “The US’s chance of jumping into the green bandwagon left the station.” “In China, this is not treated like a competition. The US is not just in the game.”
At home, Trump can talk about the climate crisis and the effect of being cleaned on the internet and mockery those who are worried about things like “madness ,, but will continue to be assembled regardless of the effects of an overheating planet.
Floods in Texas, fires in California and uninsured houses in Florida can only be rejected for a long time as the charm of cheap, plenty of clean energy. Trump’s call for action about the 2009 climate can be postponed, but it is unlikely to be rejected.
“Now there is a dive, there is less willingness to talk less than carbon,” Carnahan said. “But this is contrary to the tide of what you see with renewable energy in our biggest competitors. Not only all, but all inside, but really moving.
“All this will not disappear because the problem has not been solved. There will be concerns about the action of climate change because there is no other option.
“The problem is still there and the facts of the effects will become increasingly clearer over time.”
