One of the aspects of Trump’s project 2025 that I find particularly heinous is their active campaign to elevate fossil fuels over all other forms of energy.
From the very beginning of his second administration Trump has declared war on renewable energy, ordering a halt to all present and future U.S. wind projects, and blocking subsidies and loans for wind and solar projects on U.S. farms, depriving rural areas of much needed electricity and extra income.
But Trump is not only shutting down renewable energy projects in the U.S., he is trying to do it on a global scale by slapping extra tariffs on countries that have pledged to lower fossil fuel consumption. There is no sense to these policies other than blind vengeance for windmills “ruining” the view on his Scottish golf course, and all the more likely that he appears to be in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry.
In Trump’s first administration he claimed that global warming was a Chinese hoax, and now he wants to kill two birds with one stone by denying loans and subsidies for renewable projects that use Chinese parts.
Emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is the overwhelming reason for the acceleration in the global rise in mean temperature that has already led to more severe droughts, more frequent and longer lasting wildfires, bigger and more frequent storms and more catastrophic floods. The economic cost from the destruction of lives and infrastructure could cripple future society. In fact, insurance rates have been steadily climbing for years - and in the not too distant future insurance may become unaffordable.
The fossil fuel industry wants to deceive the public about the bad consequences from burning their product, which is inexorably leading to serious long term damage to our society and the environment, and through their bought and paid for politicians, they are successfully blocking any action that would lessen the severity of climate change. They are lying about the effects of fossil fuel emissions, smearing climate scientists, and joining hands with fascist and right wing governments in suppressing the science, and dismantling and sabotaging the transition to electric vehicles and renewables.
Trump is not acting alone on this. He is backed by a coalition of political, religious, and industrial leaders who are joining hands to stop the rest of us from doing anything constructive about climate change - and the driving motivation is so that dying industries can continue to maintain their profit ratios.
The transition to renewable forms of energy is not only possible, it is happening in industrialized nations like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and China.The fact that much of the world has come together to tackle the problem in a series of global meetings is a great sign of human progress - such a thing has never been attempted before and never on such an enormous human scale.
To simply deny the problem and to block any efforts towards a viable solution, as the President of the United States is now doing, is, I believe, a crime against humanity.
