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Thanks to Trump, Climate Policy Has a Chance in 2024
It’s almost too obvious to state that a Harris victory in November would be an historic save for US climate policy. However, the stakes have never been higher, so it bears repeating. A Trump 2.0 would dismantle as much of Biden’s climate agenda as he possibly could — starting on Day 1. It would set US environmental policy back decades.
In the 2024 election, Trump’s opposition to clean energy and climate science may ironically be a good thing. According to ABC News and others, “inflation, foreign policy, and reproductive rights have dominated the national conversation, with environmental policy failing to emerge as a major ballot issue.”
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Not for the first time, the greatest existential crisis of our time is listed on the under-card of voter motivators. However, Trump’s memetic use of the Green New Deal as a pillar of radical “woke” thinking will bring climate issues onto the presidential campaign stage. It will prove a tactical mistake for the ci-devant president and a gift to Harris and the Democrats, both during and after the election.
The Green New Deal is the name given to a proposed policy that wasn’t. That is, it wasn’t anything other than a 5K…