‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint | driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules
‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint
A second Trump presidency would truly cement the United States' position as the unwiped asshole of the world.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In contrast to a sometimes chaotic first White House term, they outlined a far more methodical second presidency: driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining mainstream climate scientists and overturning rules that curb planet-heating emissions.
The prized target for Trump’s Republican allies, should the former president defeat Joe Biden in November’s election, will be the Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark $370bn bill laden with support for clean energy projects and electric vehicles.
Carla Sands, a key environment adviser to the pro-Trump America First Policy Institute who has criticized Biden’s “apocalyptic green fantasies”, said: “Our nation needs a level regulatory playing field for all forms of energy to compete.
But fully repealing the IRA, which has disproportionally brought popular funding and jobs in solar, wind and battery manufacturing to Republican districts, may be politically difficult for Trump even if his party gains full control of Congress.
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.
Critics of Trump, who are already fretting over his potential return to the White House, warn this agenda will stymie clean energy investment, place Americans’ health at the mercy of polluters, badly damage the effort to address the climate crisis and alienate America’s allies.
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Why would he care about the environment? Those are long term effects. Well, longer than he’s going to live
Usually, if you're at the level of being elected President, part of what you care about is how you'll be written up when history is written. It's a form of immortality, and most people don't want to be Herostratus
But if you have narcissistic personality disorder you are perfect and awesome and know for certain historians will vindicate you. In other words, he cannot imagine being thought of poorly for anything he does.
Some people want to be the bad guy in the documentary. Trump is more ambitious. He wants to be the bad guy in humanity's warning that we leave to any spacefaring civilization that finds our ruins.
He watched Captain Planet and wanted to be the villians.
Can you Imagine someone doing Captain Planet now? The uproar of the right about brainwashing children would be enormous!
Trump's obviously butthurt he wasn't cast in a Mad Max movie, so he's making the world a dystopian nightmare world that worships gas.
Now he just needs to eat the hearts of 10 virgins to de-age himself. That way he can ride around on his war-mobile with his shirt off so he can impress his idol, Putin.