Honeyed words. Provocateurs. A nightmarish slogan that was repeated repeatedly throughout Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
It is the promise of energy that will cost less.
The promise to reopen the floodgates of oil extraction. THE sugar daddy of the industry wants to put the siphon back on them. Make the liquid gold flow. Drill protected territories.
Deregulate the fossil industry. Sending a gigantic burst of greenhouse gases back into the skies of Americans. It’s not just the enthusiasm of Chevron and ExxonMobil that will get carried away, but GHG emissions too.
Trump, the climate skeptic
The consequences of climate change will not fade with the arrival of Trump in the White House. The messianic aura that he wants to give himself will not save the population from the human but also economic consequences which are very real.
Talk to the people of Florida. Helene et Milton claimed more than 250 lives and caused $50 billion in damage.
Talk to agricultural producers in the west of the country who have dealt with years of historic drought where almond fields literally went into the crusher after drying out on site.
The destruction of crops, fires and hurricanes will continue to multiply, destroy and be costly.
Trump will deny it in vain. The forces of nature will always remain stronger.
Casual
Trump’s glibness is a predictable strategy, but it has an expiration date. He has no control over the climate crisis. In fact, he chose not to control it, but the bill for this inaction will have to be paid. And many States have understood this.
More and more industries have understood this. The transition is underway and even if it is not going as quickly as we would like, the movement is underway and Trump will not be able to stop it alone.
