The recent inauguration of Donald Trump in 2025 leaves us questioning if our current government elects even ponder the current state of climate change on our planet. Often times I surround myself with friends and family who see the current natural disasters such as the fires in California and the cold fronts in Michigan. For everyday people just in my small bubble to regard the current state of weather and still question will climate change affect me? Or even ponder on if climate change is actually tangible. According
Donald Trump is one of the most important figures on the planet currently. Climate change being one of the other most important matters on the planet, we would yearn the two would align. Trump and his team cogitate on their project 2025 plan in ways such as working to stop the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Their plan to support gas, oil, and coal instead of partaking in action to use solar or wind energy can cause extreme damage to the state of our planet. Efforts to draw back on programs such as EV hummer production in the U.S..
Trumps approach and lack of attention to the current climate solution highlights using fossil fuels instead of attempting a more clean aspect of using renewable energy. Trumps plan to remove from the Paris climate accords and expand liquefied natural gas exports would heavily support the oil and gas industry while undercutting the shift to renewables in places like Asia. This careless approach of drilling instead of yearning for clean energy approaches will cause set backs in the state of our planet as well as slowing down any current efforts being made.
It is frustrating that our country would choose someone to be in charge that will ultimately set us back in the process of protecting our planet from this climate process. Seeing projects such as building walls or lack of human decency being put forward over saving the only plant we have is extremely concerning. Ask yourself and others what is more important to you saving our planet or building a wall to keep others out of our country? How can we build a wall if we don't have a planet to live on? Focus and awareness needs to be brought to this topic. The current lack of attention to our climate state leads us to worry what will be left of our planet in the future?
I fully agree that this is a concerning issue the problem is how we can solve it because Project 2025 is already set in motion and if we are to believe the countdown clocks we only have 5 or less years to fix our climate crisis before the damage is irreversible
ReplyDeleteI found this to be a well thought out and put together post, I appreciate your insight on this pressing situation. I agree that it is insane our society's 'majority' would choose for someone with such carelessness for our planet in office and I am worried for what the world may look like following Trump's term.
ReplyDeleteIt's really sad to see us pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement again, it was such a disappointment when it happened the first time, let alone again.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was a great post and you posed a really intriguing question. I am really interested in seeing how things go now that he is president. I wonder if the time that's passed will change his viewpoints or if change isn't an option for him. I don't follow politics much so I don't know anything about his ideas, but I would hope that this new election and new year will bring some new changes.
ReplyDeleteSadly, Trump has a long history of climate denialism (and denial of sound science in general), and is squarely situated in the pockets of fossil fuel executives. It seems unlikely that someone so willfully ignorant or apathetic is going to make change for the better, unfortunately. :(
DeleteThe effects of climate change and the present administration's environmental policy stance evidently worrys us all alot. Sharing scientific data and bringing attention to the real-world consequences of climate change, such natural catastrophes, might help people realize how urgent the situation is. Cleaner energy policy arguments can be strengthened by emphasizing the advantages of renewable energy sources and the significance of international collaboration, such as the Paris Agreement. Broader change can also be facilitated by supporting neighborhood initiatives and having productive conversations with those who hold different opinions.
ReplyDeleteI think the broad efforts to discredit, downplay, and deny the presence and/or intensity of the climate crisis have affected the public's view of climate change, or have set it out of mind entirely. The public may have come to believe that it's not yet an issue that affects them directly, and therefore do not vote like climate change is a problem yet.
ReplyDeleteThing is.. it does impact all of us, even if it's not (yet) directly, and it needs to be addressed proactively, not retroactively. The price of eggs may have been top of their mind in the 2024 election, but I promise that egg prices will be the least of our worries if we don't take action. Wish more folks realized that.
I think the idea of building walls is deeply linked to the climate crisis. Here is what Christian Parenti says about that: "If climate change is allowed to destroy whole economies and nations, no amount of walls, guns, barbed wire, armed aerial drones, or permanently deployed mercenaries will be able to save one half of the planet from the other."
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Jimmie! It’s frustrating to see climate action take a backseat when the effects are so clear. Do you think there’s still hope for policy shifts, or will change have to come from activism?
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