President’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world | As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/05/donald-trump-hatred-renewables-us-falling-behind-world
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It’s stupid. The guy could have expanded the tax credits and then yapped about all the jobs he created and how unemployment was down and local economies were thriving once again
Instead we got what we got
Weakening the nation economically, diplomatically and militarily has always been at the top of Agent Krasnov’s orders. This is all just going according to plan.
He doesnt hate renewables. The *entire* ethos of the republican party is just trolling. They will “hate” whatever the left likes.
Theyve figured out that trolling excites their core base of morons.
I promise you with 100000% certainty that if the left went pro-coal tomorrow, that republicans would switch and be anti coal.
They have zero principles or policies or beliefs outside of trolling.
The US will end up paying dearly for destroying green progress. They are going back all in on fossil fuels & ignoring pleas.
The country isn’t immune to out of control forest fires, extreme droughts, water shortages, biblical floods, historical hurricanes, crop failures, soil stability & biodiversity loss.
Thoughts & prayers won’t save them after destroying *God’s* land.
**” U.S. green energy use has been at an all-time high, with record levels of renewable energy production and deployment in recent years, particularly in 2024 and early 2025. Solar and wind power are leading the growth, breaking records for generation and capacity, and were the main drivers behind the first time fossil fuels accounted for less than 50% of the U.S. electricity mix in March 2025. “**
we are actually doing quite well with renewables
Poor old people have died from cold exposure in Australia in winter because energy is now so expensive they have to choose between food or warmth so we can have NO effect on global temperatures.
I am over getting energy bills that take my breath away, while scam green energy companies reap billions in subsidies and keep barking that renewables are cheap when they are insanely expensive.
DV me all you want this is the real world. Going green is making the poor poorer and the rich richer.
From the article: Six years after Donald Trump allegedly wrote a suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, the current US president put his name to something that now seems almost as shocking: a letter calling for action on the climate crisis.
In 2009 Trump, then a real estate developer and reality TV personality, was among a group of business leaders behind a full-page advertisement in the New York Times calling for legislation to “control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today”. The US must lead on clean energy, Trump and the others wrote, to avoid “catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet”.
Today, the letter is jarring. The world continues to dawdle politically in its response to the climate crisis but clean energy is booming, responsible for almost all new energy capacity and drawing double the investment of fossil fuels globally. The market, as those business leaders from 2009 would now note, has shifted.
Most starkly, though, Trump has become the planet’s foremost advocate of fossil fuels, throwing the might of the US presidency into a rearguard battle to keep the world mired in the era of combusted carbon. There is now no fiercer single opponent to the collective effort to stave off climate breakdown than Trump.
When world leaders gather for UN climate talks in Brazil next month, the escalation of Trump’s hostility towards climate action will be apparent. The US state department’s office that deals with climate negotiations has been abolished as “unnecessary”, making it unclear who, if anyone, will represent the world’s leading economic and military superpower in Belem.
As in his first term, Trump has again withdrawn the US from the Paris climate deal, thrown open more land and waters for oil and gas drilling, and set about dismantling clean air protections that would have prevented thousands of deaths across America. These rollbacks will “drive a stake through the heart of the climate change religion”, as Lee Zeldin, Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, gleefully put it.
Because the 10 billion dollar solar energy farm in California that is shutting down after only 10 years is doing great PR for renewable energy.
He knows the human race isn’t gonna last long enough for it to matter
It’ll take several generations to recover from the damage he’s doing (if we make it to the other side)
Clean energy is gonna reduce pricing to negative 0 rebate status. Every industry and everything on the planet, giant surplus frenzy and exchange. People trying to make their money back on something that shouldn’t be worked in anymore.
Propaganda is very powerful. Renewables should be touted as more “local control”, and its not.
If he likes beautiful clean coal so much he should decorate the oval office with a 1/16″ coating of beautiful black soot. At least it wouldn’t be the gaudy gold.