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applegrove

(118,460 posts)
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 12:41 AM Dec 2018

Trump Resists Global Climate Change Efforts

https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/09/trump-resists-global-climate-change-efforts/

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“The United States joined a controversial proposal by Saudi Arabia and Russia this weekend to weaken a reference to a key report on the severity of global warming, sharpening battle lines at the global climate summit in Poland aimed at gaining consensus over how to combat rising temperatures,” the Washington Post reports.

“The U.S. position lines up with the views of the Trump administration, which is plowing ahead with a raft of aggressive policies on coal power and oil exploration that are likely to worsen the effects of climate change — steamrolling over dire environmental warnings issued by the administration’s own team of experts in a major report just two weeks ago.”

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Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
2. Yep. Trump and others know they won't personally suffer the effects of climate change, so who cares.
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 01:16 AM
Dec 2018

Trump, though, did have enough sense to get permission to build a wall around one of his coastal golf courses.

Rhiannon12866

(204,611 posts)
4. I've wondered about that, too
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 08:43 AM
Dec 2018

Is he absolutely incapable of thinking of anyone else - even his own family??

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