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/ ).