Opinion: Trump is embracing climate destruction
By Katrina vanden Heuvel Katrina vanden Heuvel Columnist covering national politics, progressive politics and movements, and foreign policy Bio Follow Columnist May 21 at 8:59 AM Amid the daily infamies of Donald Trump’s presidency, his greatest dereliction of duty is his decision not to confront but to accelerate the greatest threat facing this country: the clear, present and growing danger of catastrophic climate change.
The reality is no longer in dispute by anyone willing to be honest about the science. We are on a path that has already begun to take casualties and rack up staggering costs. A recent U.N. report warns of the extinction of a million species — and the imperiling of humanity itself — in the next few decades.
And, of course, Trump repeated his mockery of the Green New Deal, calling it a “hoax, like the hoax I just went through." He continued, “We will never let radical activists, special interests, and out-of-control bureaucrats wreck our economy, eliminate our jobs, or destroy your future.” In fact, that is exactly what Trump is doing.
Biden promises only to return to the Paris accord, a policy that might have been promising in the late 1980s, but simply represents inadequate moral signaling now.
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