The 45th US President Donald Trump is (in)famous for his raw appeal to the citizens and characteristic approach to the US politics. From his nomination to his election, Trump has been the outsider of the outsiders who made into mainstream politics and has definitely taken the world by surprise. But if Donald Trump is a man of his word then all the environmentalists of the world need to be afraid of the next few year of his presidency.
From his early campaigning days, Donald Trump has been in favor of enabling Americans get the basic necessities. And his policies about the environment are daunting for every nature lover. There are many things that Donald Trump had said in his campaigning days, some of those are:
- Trump has called ‘global warming’ a Chinese hoax.
- Trump claimed that when elected he will scrap all the major regulations that President Obama painstakingly put in place to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions, including the Clean Power Plan.
- Trump has also hinted he wants to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency entirely. “What they do is a disgrace,” he has said.
- He is not a big fan of renewable sources of energy. He wants to repeal all federal spending on clean energy, including R&D for wind, solar, nuclear power, and electric vehicles.
- Donald Trump wants US to step out of the Paris Climate deal.
- Trump wants to bring back US coal mining.
If projections from Lux Research are to be believed, then United States and the entire world are headed to darker times. The research predicts that policies of Donald Trump as the President of United States would lead to an extra 3.4 billion tons of CO2 emissions compared with Hillary Clinton’s proposals:
Climate change has been the burning issue of modern era, and United States being a superpower in the world needs to be a role model to utilize the usage of cleaner fuels. But all the policies and projections mean that United States, which the world already knows as an oil hogging country, would want more fossil fuels.
Trump also wants to rebuild the US Coal Mining, but it highly unlikely that it will happen. But even the slightest of influx of money in the deadbeat industry would result in high levels of carbon emissions.
To answer the question – ‘maybe’, maybe Trump’s presidency will affect the Climate Change but all we can do is wait for him to reveal his policies to the world, and hope his policies do justice to Planet Earth.
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