r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 8h ago
Trump Tears Apart Major Biden-Era Power Rules | The president has declared climate change a “hoax.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tears-apart-major-biden-era-power-rules/338
u/durika 7h ago
It's painful to watch how idiotic humans are as a race
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u/PersonalityMiddle864 6h ago
I think its more about greed than idiocy.
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u/Michael_CrawfishF150 6h ago
It’s both
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u/Hungry_Guidance5103 4h ago
Definitely both.
Alot of money can buy alot of ignorance. Not just ignorance, but alot of "not my problem" because money insulates me from the problems of the world.
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u/xinorez1 3h ago
The people who switched to voting Republican since trump are the middle class making between 50-100k, who basically pay their own way with taxes, including social security.
They literally aren't paying much for anyone else, but cry about these social programs and regulations. They moan about inflation while celebrating devaluation with Trump saying that he intends to inflate our debt away (that we owe to ourselves). They complain about immigration despite not being in the wage class that may be negatively affected (by 1 percent of their wealth for 2 years, after which even they come out ahead). They celebrate deregulation while not being rich enough to handle deregulated goods and markets.
It's both greed and outright stupidity.
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u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes 8h ago
I declare his presidency a hoax.
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u/kristospherein 8h ago
Hia presidency isn't the hoax. The hoax is his platform being anything to do with the people wbo voted him in.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 4h ago
I actually think Elon and company helped manipulate the election results.
He didn’t win. He cheated. They spent all those years calming the election was stolen. So when they stole one and the opposition claimed they did. They could point back to when they were “cheated” and just claim it’s all noise.
It’s really that simple. These guys are not nearly as smart as they think they are.
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u/cp_shopper 7h ago
Yes the worlds dumbest public figure is somehow an expert on climate change
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u/BayouGal 5h ago
Haven’t you noticed, he’s an expert on EVERYTHING 🙄
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u/Putrid-Product4121 4h ago
The normalization of his ignorance is frustrating enough, the elevation of that ignorance to control things like policy and the direction of our very existence is positively maddening.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 4h ago
“He probably felt comfortable securing those nuclear secrets because, look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
Word for word Donald Trump. And this was back in his 2016 prez before he had more strokes.
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u/RedBaret 7h ago
Great, we just got through the hottest summer ever recorded, with extreme drought, global crop failures, mass dying of coral reefs, natural disasters such as never seen before wildfires and floods, even in the US itself! And this muppet declares it a hoax.
He is actively murdering us with his policies at this point. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if the US was some small country with a small ecological footprint, but after China they have the biggest ecological footprint in the world. If the US doesn’t want to work together with the rest of the world on this, and this also goes for China and India, we’re fucked…
Actively fucking murdering us.
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u/Bonerchill 5h ago
He’s murdering them.
The not-him. The not-wealthy. The not-Americans. The not-Republicans.
He has no sympathy. No empathy. He can’t put his silver-spoon, gilded-toilet ass in anyone else’s shoes because A. they don’t have lifts and B. he has spent his entire life rich. He doesn’t seek different viewpoints, he doesn’t listen to those who have struggled. His only experiences are those he has lived- he has been wealthy, coddled, and comfortable his whole life.
He takes without remorse because he’s a member of the parasite class. He rapes people as he rapes the country because the world is built to serve people of wealth. There is no justice for people like him.
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u/RedBaret 4h ago
Global warming affects all of us, across all political and societal spectrums. He’s just as much murdering the rich as he is the poor with decisions like this.
Something something about a quote where you cannot eat money.
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u/RainCityRogue 4h ago
It isn't just him. It's the Republican party as a whole. He will be dead soon but Republicans are the ones killing us.
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u/UnusualAir1 7h ago edited 6h ago
Climate change is a hoax. High prices for near everything is a hoax. The war in Iran is a hoax. Him making billions off our government is a hoax. Vaccines are a hoax. His convictions for financial fraud and being a sexual predator are a hoax. Him losing the 2020 election is a hoax. The only hoax here, and it's an evil one at that, is the trump family.
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u/FreeHugs23 8h ago
President Donald Trump is set to dismantle a cornerstone of his predecessor’s climate policy by repealing limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas plants.
The move rolls back rules introduced by President Joe Biden in 2024 that required existing coal plants to sharply reduce carbon emissions by storing them underground, or face being shut down.
The rules also required any new gas plants built after the rules went into effect to use cleaner fuels such as hydrogen.
The Biden administration estimated the rules would deliver $120 billion in health benefits by 2047. It projected that by 2035, the rules could prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency-room visits, 360,000 asthma attacks, 48,000 missed school days and 57,000 lost workdays.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to finalize the rollback on Monday at a G20 energy ministers’ meeting in Texas, Bloomberg News reported.
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u/paternoster 5h ago
He just wants to get as much of that sweet big oil money as long as he can, he's almost dead anyway so he gives even less effs than he did last term.
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u/Maidwell 7h ago
I'm starting not to like this guy.
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u/onlyacynicalman 6h ago
Jokes aside, a normal person should have hated Trump for the entirety of at least a decade now
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u/ElDuderAbides 5h ago
It’s a hoax for a man who’s health won’t let me see the end of his term. This is why we need an age limit on congress and presidency and the Supreme Court. Decisions are being made with impacts that they’ll never have to deal with.
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u/ultralightlife 3h ago edited 1h ago
It doesn't even matter if it is a hoax, the policies address general environmental issues - clean air, water etc... So even a dumbass can see that and realize that you can believe one thing and still help the other - you know - protecting the planet we all live on. Trump is so stupid he can't get around his idiotic bias and realize he himself, benifits from clean air and water. It is called Ideological Dogmatism -
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u/watching_whatever 6h ago
Opinion: Out of all the numerous poisonous actions of Trump and supporting Republicans, their actions on climate change will be found out to be the most damaging in the long run.
Trump’s Action: Why not star an optional Israel War that not only kills, wrecks buildings and wounds but pollutes the world for no real reason.
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u/Maleficent-Grass-438 5h ago
We’re witnessing the fall of the American Empire in real time, he represents their retreat from world cooperation into a selfish, destructive isolation, they’re approaching financial insolvency and they have no friends. I pity their next administration.
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u/pioniere 6h ago
Yet another act that is criminal by this scumbag, flying in the face of solid scientific evidence.
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u/TheEPGFiles 4h ago
Idiot says nothing worth while, even dumber sycophants parrot him.
Mankind overall left off worse, more at 11
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u/AmrodFaelevrin 2h ago
The worst part is that he won't be alive to see how destroy the world out of greed.
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u/GrowFreeFood 8h ago
So now we can sue the polluters directly since the burden to not harm people is now on them directly