What Choice Do We Have in 2024 If We’re to Save the Planet?

Joel B. Stronberg
9 min readOct 18, 2023

This article first appeared on my website Civil Notion.

It should be clear to everyone in the climate activist community that if the ex-president becomes the next president, it will knock U.S. climate policy back decades — yes, decades! The only thing worse would be his having a Republican Congress to help him do it. Given that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump (POT) and an upcoming all too-close-to-call presidential election, these are realistic possibilities.

Trump has now added to his list of grievances against wind turbines and the reasons why he will have none of them as president. The ex-president has previously accused the machines of eradicating the nation’s birds, lowering property values, and causing cancer.

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If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, okay?

He now adds to his list of grievances: “Their [the woke] windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. No one does anything about that.” Presumably, he was talking about offshore wind…

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Joel B. Stronberg

Stronberg is a thought leader in the climate community with over 40 years of experience covering environmental and sustainability issues as a freelancer.