Day 69: Trump Burns Climate Change Regulations

The move is likely to adversely impact American lives, American pockets and American standing worldwide.

In an executive order, Donald Trump began undoing many of Barack Obama’s rules aimed at reducing carbon output. Obama’s goals were to slow climate change, something that virtually every scientist in the field has noted is crucial to the future of the world.

Reuters’ synopsis concisely explains what Trump’s executive order does and the effect it will have.

Trump has long stated his belief, apparently based on no science, that global warming is a hoax. He has often claimed that the idea has been perpetrated by the Chinese in an effort to gain economic advantages.

In defending the executive order, a senior staffer seemed wholly unaware that scientific data existed showing that climate change was real.

We’ve long known that Trump is against any sort of acknowledgement that the science behind climate change is real. Trump’s administration at one point asked the EPA to delete climate change data from its website. He eventually tapped an unqualified climate change denier and EPA suer to head the EPA.

In Trump’s mind whether climate change is real or not, creating jobs is a priority. He sees the path to prosperity through pipelines and coal mines. The problem is, as we wrote on Day -70, “demand for coal has stagnated. As James Conca with Forbes articulated, ‘It doesn’t make a lot of financial sense to expand coal use again within the United States.’ The economics just aren’t there for coal.”

Other countries will now consider whether to move forward on planned changes and regulations within their own countries. Understandably, they’re worried about lagging behind economically and fighting an issue on a limited front that requires a cooperative effort.

The U.S. will not only lose its standing on this issue well into the future, but Trump’s actions are devastating to America: potentially costing $600 billion and causing over 100,000 premature deaths in the U.S. alone, according to Forbes.

While a focus on clean energy would be a great way to add jobs, Trump has always looked at the big picture on that issue.

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