Donald Trump: The President of America who called global warming a Chinese hoax! Humanity at stake

But there’s always reason for hope. Nothing’s ever entirely lost. Political change unfolds in unexpected ways. And not everything on Earth revolves around the machinations of the US federal government. So here are a few reasons to think the fight against climate change is not yet lost.

1. States like California and New York are still pursuing their own ambitious climate policies, and it’s possible those efforts could be so wildly successful that other states decide to follow suit.
2. Likewise, wind power, solar power, and electric cars keep getting much cheaper all around the world — it’s possible they’ll eventually acquire an unstoppable momentum, even without federal support from the US government. Or maybe some other new low-carbon technologies will come along to shake up climate politics.
3. Climate activists will continue to push for action at local levels — much as they did during the George W. Bush years, when the Sierra Club began blocking a major planned expansion of coal power. It’s possible that opposition to Trump will galvanize a new generation of grassroots climate activists who find new, creative ways to address the problem.
4. Other countries still have their own reasons for tackling climate change, even China and India (which, note, is choking on dangerous levels of air pollution in Delhi right now). It’s possible that Trump’s recalcitrance on climate change could motivate the rest of the world and convince them to redouble their efforts at curtailing emissions.
5. By the grace of some superpower it’s even possible that Trump and the GOP could have a change of heart and decide that global warming is a real issue that needs to be taken seriously. It’s possible that Republicans could balk at repealing all these pollution regulations, realizing that they’re actually popular. Stranger things have happened.

Lots of things are possible. This will continue to be a defining issue for generations — long after Trump is gone. But the landscape has undeniably changed. Right now Trump has given every indication that he wants to gamble with the future of the only planet in the universe that’s known to support life. And what he wants to do is dangerous.

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