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A great attack on climate actions we’ve ever seen

A great attack on climate actions we’ve ever seen

It will be difficult to forget about the Trump scene that the US has abandoned the Paris Agreement with shouts from 20,000 supporters of the magician. Or lifting the crowd when he threw a ceremonial flaster marker in the crowd. Enthusiasm in connection with the resignation of a contract aimed at maintaining them safer in a world that just reached the hottest year ever recorded. A contract that does not require anything from any country other than your own “contribution” specified in global security.

Instead, the United States is determined for “drilling, child, drilling”, the president declared in his inaugural speech. “We have something that no other production nation will never have – the largest amount of oil and gas from any country on earth, and we will use it.” A few hours later, he formally announced a “domestic energy accident” in order to replace the limitations of drilling “liquid gold”. A nearby movement for a country that is currently pumping more fossil fuels than any nation in the history of the world.

It is not in the field of sugar – the first hours of Donald Trump’s office were the most cruel and comprehensive attack on the climate that we have ever seen. What still remains to see is how effective the rule after the goals really is and what reaction it causes.

Among the Firehose of Madness, the most promising turn I can offer is reasons to expect a reaction. At the moment it seems to be thin cane, but public opinion tends to move to major changes in politics. The prosecuting term is the “thermostatic effect” or thermostatic policy. Basically, public opinion rotates the knob when the temperature is not appropriate. This thermostatic effect is well in love by political scientists and you can definitely justify that Trump’s first term has increased the public demand for climate activities around the world.

But it cannot be denied that today’s context looks and seems much different. And Trump’s attack is sweeping. On the very front of the climate he warned executive orders attacking everything, from international contracts to bulbs.

And Broadsides are coming. Freezing, not only on the wind at sea, as promised, but on all permits for all wind energy, including those on land. The wind has become a leading source of renewable energy in the USA paradoxically, most of them come from reliably Republican countries, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas. By the end of the day, the interior department went even more, ordering its employees to freeze permits to all types of renewable energy “on land or at sea”.

The next order announced the role of performance standards for dishes-machine equipment, washing machines and the like, but even shower heads and bulbs. While energy situations in the 1970s catalyzed more efficient use, this time consumers are encouraged to waste more, even turning the switch back to the bulbs. The Order promises to “secure the freedom of the American nation to choose from various goods and devices, including bulbs.” Trump has been complaining about LED bulbs for years, saying that they make it look orange.

Trump ordered an extracted electric vehicle plugin, stopping on expenditure on charging stations and tax breaks for the purchase of EV. The EV goal creating half of the new vehicles sold until 2030 was withdrawn, and Trump moved to withdraw the existing standards of car pollution, which he calls the “EV mandate”.

He ordered federal agencies to stop spending money on the basis of the inflation reduction act, signature of the Biden Clean Energy administration, which Trump determines as “green new fraud”. And he annulled “exemptions” that allow countries like California to determine standards of pollution higher than federal. Not only 17 other states followed the lead in California, but they are also a reference point for provinces such as BC and Quebec and national Canada standards for zero emissions.

It is not in the field of sugar – the first hours of Donald Trump’s office were the most cruel and comprehensive attack on the climate that we have ever seen. @chrishatch.blusky.Social writes

These and many other orders (so many others …) will end in court, and the effectiveness of Trump’s rule by Sharpie will be tested. But it is worth looking back to the reaction to his first date of the assault to energy and climate policy.

You may have to pride yourself to believe that it really happened, but last time Trump abandoned the Paris Agreement, Prime Minister Albert protested, igniting the legislator Edmonton in green “for climate leadership around the world.”

The General Director of Goldman Sachs actually joined Twitter to condemn what he called “US failure and managerial position in the world.”

National leaders openly trolled Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron published memes calling for a global pursuit of “making our great planet.” Mayors in Canada and in the world have committed to double their efforts. In the United States, a great coalition of countries and cities tribal leaders and companies gathered under the banner “We are still inside”.

The most chasing of all: One Elon Musk publicly gave up Trump’s presidential advice in protest. “Climate change is true,” he said. “Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.”

It is difficult to even out with the muscles that we see today. But here is the receipt:

Musk was an emblematic time. Mark Zuckerberg condemned Trump, saying that withdrawing “exposes the future of our children at risk … Stopping climate change is something that we can do only as a global community, and we must act together before it is too late.”

The bosses of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other technology companies considered. “Incorrect for our planet,” said Tim Cook, general director of Apple. “Apple is obliged to fight climate change and we will never hesitate.”

The thermostatic effect was clear in real time. Trump’s pursuit of fossils dominated the opposition. People were nervous, loud and organized. Until 2017, the Movement of the East overturned with young people, pressing on wide rules, such as Green New Deal-Kampania, which eventually appeared, changed as an act on the reduction of inflation of Biden administration.

Until 2018, school strikes were ready. A short, turbulent year later half a million people marched in Montreal, Greta Thunberg was the home name and the person of the year Time magazine for 2019.

In the pre -entemperic times there was an undeniable sense of momentum. This time the mood is much darker. The climate and decarbonization dropped from public priorities, displaced by inflation, nasty spawn covida.

The whole concept of international cooperation sounds gullible in 2025. The inaugural wedding of Trump “Extensions of our territory” repeated itself to the world, which has already become more unstable. Trend described by Tim Sahay, The editor of the PolyCrisis Bulletin, as “the total fall of global cooperation and multilateralism in favor of the jungle law and” power of improvement “.

The same technological titans are not waiting to see if Sahay is exaggerating the situation. They lined up behind Trump’s family to his inauguration. Bankers leave their net-zero clubs massively.

There are several modern signs of thermostatic reaction if you look tightly enough. A group of philanthropists approaches the financing of UN climate agency and covering the gap after the US withdrawal. From Europe to South America, Africa to China, national leaders confirmed their obligations.

As for the social thermostat? We really just know that we just don’t know. It is good that whatever comes, it will not be what we expect – realization, which is both terrifying and a strange source of comfort.