HOWES, Charlotte. Re climate change denier Trump's anti-science, terracidal policies: "Trump’s climate genocide"

Charlotte Howes on climate change denialist Trump’s climate genocidal policies (2017): “Trump’s climate genocide … When asked, “Do you believe in climate change?” Trump responded: “I think there’ll be a little change here, it’ll go up, it’ll get a little cooler, it’ll get a little warmer. Like it always has, for millions of years. It’s called weather. I think it’s a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.”… Trump plans to cancel the remaining sum to be paid to the Climate Change Fund and any future UN climate change programmes, as laid out in his plan for the first 100 days in office. The manifesto also proposes that the funds be used instead on ‘fixing America’s water and environmental infrastructure’. His sixth statement under ‘actions to protect the American worker’ declares his intention of reviving the pipeline projects [Keystone and Dakota] and lifting other ‘Obama-Clinton roadblocks’ to allow energy infrastructure projects to move forward on Americans own finite fossil fuel reserves. This, in turn, will re-open the floodgates to up to $50 trillion dollars (£39.58 trillion) worth of shale, oil, natural gas and coal… It appears that Trump is set on waging war against the environment, at a time when if we don’t start investing in green energy then we may miss our chance to preserve our only planet” (Charlotte Howes, “Trump’s climate genocide”, Artefact, 10 February 2017: https://www.artefactmagazine.com/2017/02/10/trumps-climate-genocide/ ).

[Comment on Trump’s climate genocide (see Charlotte Howes, “Trump’s climate genocide”, Artefact, 10 February 2017: https://www.artefactmagazine.com/2017/02/10/trumps-climate-genocide/ ) that is mirrored in the climate criminal policies of the pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, anti-science, anti-environment, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal and climate change inaction policies of the US lackey, neoliberal, Trumpist Australian Coalition Government led by pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-renewable energy, effective climate change denialist PM Malcolm Turnbull. Ignored by Mainstream media, there is presently a worsening Climate Genocide in which about 7.5 million people die avoidably (prematurely) each year due to the effects carbon burning pollutants (7.0 million) (WHO) or to climate change (0.5 million). This latter estimate of presently about 0.5 million climate change-related deaths may be an under-estimate because UN Population Division data indicate that presently17 million people die avoidably (prematurely) each year (half of them children) due to poverty in the Developing World (minus China), with these impoverished, tropical or sub-tropical countries already being severely impacted by global warming. Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (atmospheric composition and Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have estimated that only about 0.5 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming. Noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division), these estimates translate to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including roughly twice the present population of particular mainly non-European groups, specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis. Already 17 million people (about half of them children) die avoidably every year due to deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease and man-made global warming is already impacting this Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust. However 10 billion avoidable deaths due to global warming this century will yield an average annual avoidable death rate this century of 100 million per year (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ )].