“The planet will be entirely devastated”
It was October 26th. During a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump announced that he wanted to make the United States the leading energy producer.
"Day one, hour one... We're going to do a lot of things, but first we're going to drill," Trump assured. In 2017, the Republican businessman had already expressed his desire to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. He said this: "To fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement."
As he distances himself from Washington, Donald Trump's policy could well have dramatic consequences for the planet.
A report by the British media outlet Carbon Brief reveals that the Trump administration’s climate inaction alone could cost the planet 4 billion tons of CO2 by 2030. That’s twice as much as the entire amount of CO2 already reduced worldwide, thanks to the energy transition, in the last five years.
The director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, Harjeet Singh, emphasizes that “Trump’s victory is a huge setback for negotiations and for global cooperation. We know that he's likely to reverse all of the clean energy policies in the United States. He's going to promote fossil fuel extraction. That will be devastating for the planet.”
After China, the United States remains the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
(MH with AsD - Source: RTL - Picture: President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland by Gage Skidmore via Wikicommons under Creative commons license CC-BY-SA-2.0)