The American journalist H.L. Mencken had an apt one liner for any given situation, my favourite - "there's a simple solution to every human problem; it's neat, plausible and wrong!
Luckily the US judiciary and even Republican politicians know this and the administration's ill thought through proposals so far have been stalled or rejected.
Trump has reversed the Obama "Climate Protection Plan" which he denounced as "bullshit" taking US climate change policy back to industrial revolution levels.... when there wasn't any of course.
At their root our environmental problems are unintended side effects of new technology. I challenge you to come up with one that isn't!
Trump's new environmental policy ( or lack of it ) could have the ironic unintended consequence of, " making China great again."
China is the biggest global CO2 emitter, the USA is second. While the USA is trying to revive an uneconomic coal industry with coal in free fall. China is forging ahead with emission control , low carbon renewable technologies and policies. China could dominate the global clean energy market.
The US by rejecting renewables in favour of dirty fuel could find it's exports penalised by border carbon taxes and lagging way behind the rest of the world in the development of low carbon tech.
Climate change denial is a childish temper tantrum, rage at the inconvenience of truth and reality.
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| No simple solutions...... no denying it |
Trump has reversed the Obama "Climate Protection Plan" which he denounced as "bullshit" taking US climate change policy back to industrial revolution levels.... when there wasn't any of course.
At their root our environmental problems are unintended side effects of new technology. I challenge you to come up with one that isn't!
Trump's new environmental policy ( or lack of it ) could have the ironic unintended consequence of, " making China great again."
China is the biggest global CO2 emitter, the USA is second. While the USA is trying to revive an uneconomic coal industry with coal in free fall. China is forging ahead with emission control , low carbon renewable technologies and policies. China could dominate the global clean energy market.
The US by rejecting renewables in favour of dirty fuel could find it's exports penalised by border carbon taxes and lagging way behind the rest of the world in the development of low carbon tech.
Climate change denial is a childish temper tantrum, rage at the inconvenience of truth and reality.
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