The position about Donald Trump’s climate change has changed over time, more in a way than in the background. On March 27, 2015, during a conversation of presidential candidates, Trump showed skepticism about the validity of climate change appealing to the names to designate the phenomenon have changed over the years.
In the 1920 they used to talk about ‘global cooling’. They thought the earth was cooling. Now they think he is heating. (…). So now they call it ‘climate change’, and now, ‘extreme climate’. (…). It’s called weather, it’s called weather!
Donald Trump, president of the United States.
Trump considered that the change of perspective and the lack of consensus on the phenomenon would have subtracted credibility to the cause against climate change. Likewise, it lets you intuit that you believe that climatic changes They are not due to an anthropogenic effect (produced by man)implying that the climate has its own and independent cyclical nature of the industries.
On January 21, 2020, during a speech in the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Trump was highly critical of the apocalyptic and exaggerated element that Environmentalist movements perceive in the world’s vision that seek activism against climate change. Political agendas would be using this climate defense as a throwing weapon.
To embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial prophets of fatality and their predictions of the Apocalypse.
Donald Trump, president of the United States.
Probably, Trump refers to people like Michael Mann, not the film director who produced works such as Heat either Thief, but to a Climate scientist from the University of Pennsylvania, who said that the United States already represents “a Great threat to the planet”With Donald Trump as president.
Trump began relativizing climate change, advocating that a change of name implies a change in the identity of the phenomenon, incurred in explanatory contradictions. He ended up denouncing what he feels like an exaggerated fatalism with dangerous political effects. But he also made a clear decision that reinforces his position against this problem (or according to Trump, pseudoproblema) world: signed, again, The United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreementall while encouraging the use of fossil energies declaring a “national energy emergency.”
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 countries on December 12, 2015, and aims to limit global warming and prepare the participating countries to deal with the effects of climate change, operationally and financially.
Trump, a denialist of climate change?
In the short term, this obvious denialism of Trump could “be good” for the industry around Bitcoin (if something like that can be), while The United States could perceive an increase in its industrious capacity and, consequently, its internal economy, affecting the production and price of currency.
In the medium and long term, this denialism, which also tend other government characters such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with vaccines and Covid-19, It could affect Bitcoin’s reputation and slow the maturation of public perception with respect to the currency.
Mining, for example, could experience a “regression” in their practices and return to fossil energy such as natural gas, oil or those produced by carbon plants. Although it is only a hypothetical scenario, a regression would rekindle old criticism of Bitcoin, according to which the coin mining prints a large carbon footprint.
It would also feed current criticisms that point to the fact that Bitcoin consumes a lot of energy that could be used in the satisfaction of “more immediate” needs.
The denial that would affect the reputation of mining work and the speculative initial inclination for the memecoins and Altcoins are, among the good news, two wounds that Donald Trump can try to inflict Bitcoin. Another thing is that Bitcoin blood and cares.
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