Following the results of the Iowa caucuses this week, it was clear that Donald Trump is back with a vengeance and will likely be the Republican Party’s nominee. In his victory speech, far from talking about a vision of a country that does its part to address the climate crisis, he assured that one of the priorities of a future administration would be “Drill, baby, drill”, that is, increase oil and gas operations, the biggest polluters responsible for the emissions that cause climate change.
Just thinking about a Trump presidency is terrifying, but for those who need to refresh their memory, especially when it comes to climate…. Let us remember that his response to a hurricane of Maria’s proportions was to go to Puerto Rico to throw paper towels. Let us remember that he took us out of the Paris Agreement and dismantled more than 100 environmental provisions necessary to protect our environment and health. The list is long and these are just a few examples of an unequivocal truth. Trump is a climate denier and under his leadership the climate crisis will have no solution.
The year 2023 was the hotter never recorded. Across the country, everything from deadly wildfires in Hawaii to a record stretch of 31 days at 110°F or hotter in Arizona were experienced. And with just a few days to go before 2024, scientists say this year could be even hotter than 2023. This trend can become the normaif fossil fuel extraction does not decrease significantly before 2030.
From record temperatures in Iowa this week to tornadoes and high winds, the entire country has been affected by extreme weather. The climate crisis continues to knock on voters’ doors, and there is growing consensus that the next president must take action to address climate change.
Last year, the US experienced 28 disasters different meteorological and climatic conditions that cost billions of dollars. This surpasses 2020 – which had 22 events – for the record for the highest number of multi-million dollar disasters in the US. Extreme weather exacerbated by climate change is deadly and costly to taxpayers.
Trump has already made climate change denial a central part of his third campaign for the White House, spreading Big Oil-backed falsehoods about clean energy, gas prices and electric vehicles while ignoring the scientific reality of the climate. climate change. Once again, he argues that man-made global warming is a hoax and that the way forward is to “drill, drill, drill.”
One more Trump presidency would mean a huge step back in all the progress we have made. A Trump presidency would mean resuming full fossil fuel production, the worst possible thing for our planet.
We cannot afford to undo the progress we have made, which is good for our planet, our communities and our pocketbooks. President Biden’s Clean Power Plan has already led to the creation of more than 211,000 new jobs in clean energy, including significant job growth in key states such as Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Georgia. During Trump’s presidency, by contrast, car factories were closed and jobs disappeared.
In the United States, millions of Latino voters put climate change as one of the most important topics on their political agenda and we know that 2024 will be a year where Latinos will have to choose between two extremes: a climate denier like Trump or a president like Biden, who has led enormous advances to mitigate and protect us from climate change through his Climate Plan. Clean energy. The option is clear.
Antonieta Cádiz is the deputy executive director of Climate Power En Acción. Previously, she worked as a national correspondent for La Opinión and was a national political writer for Univision.
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