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Trump's Already Removing The US' Climate Change Plan And We're Fucked

Trump's Already Removing The US' Climate Change Plan And We're Fucked

Damn, son.

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Within an hour of President Trump's inauguration, a post on the White House website has already suggested that he's planning to remove the US's strategy to tackle climate change.

The homepage shows six 'issues' that he's planning to address straight away, the first of which is the 'America First Energy Plan' which will effectively get rid of the Climate Action Plan.

It says: "For too long, we've been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next seven years."

The plan was originally introduced by Barack Obama back in June 2013 and was divided into three sections: plans to cut the carbon pollution in the US, getting the country ready for the effects of climate change and also plans to lead other countries to address global warming, reports the Independent.

Trump hasn't been particularly quiet about his feelings towards climate change...

He's backed up these claims with solid evidence too..

Hey he makes some idiotic good points.

We recently put together a list of things that could happen in regards to environmental issues once Trump took office and it looks like it's already coming true. For example, we wrote that he could dismantle everything that Obama has worked for as during his eight years in office, as US CO2 emissions have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years under Obama's guidance. We also wrote that 'Trump getting elected could lead to an extra 3.4 billion tons of emissions being released into the atmosphere'.

Yikes.

So what else are we expecting him to do?

Dismantle everything that Obama has worked for

During Obama's eight years in office, US CO2 emissions dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years. Trump getting elected could lead to an extra 3.4 billion tons of emissions being released into the atmosphere.

Pull the USA out of the Paris Agreement

The historic Paris Agreement, signed by 195 nations and promising to curb climate change, is now in jeopardy, with Trump threatening to pull out. Obama tried his best to push it through before the uncertainty of the election, but it looks like all of his hard work could be undone.

Get rid of renewable energy

Trump isn't a fan of wind turbines. Bald eagles, a symbol of freedom and America, are apparently most at risk, with Trump tweeting how thousands of eagles die every year from these spinning death traps.

While it's hilarious that a man with the greatest comb-over since Sir Bobby Charlton is commenting on aesthetics, it turns out that mobile phone towers and cats are actually a much greater risk to bird populations. So, what next, Donald? A States-wide ban on felines?

Get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency

Trump has it in for the EPA. Its regulations control most of the States' environmental policy. In March he promised to "get rid of [EPA] in almost every form. We are going to have little titbits left but we are going to take a tremendous amount out." This could lead to increased fracking, air pollution and emissions.

It looks pretty scary with President Trump soon to be in charge. It's likely that the changes that he wants to make could be pushed through. "This Trump effect will be even stronger since Trump will be backed by united government," warns Dennis Tänzler, Director of International Climate Policy at Adelphi. "Everything is changing for climate change in the US and, most likely, globally." Tänzler believes Trump could have a significantly negative impact on the fight against global warming, and he sees Trump's election as a shift from 'actual climate leadership to climate denial'.

There are scary times ahead for the environment in the United States, and the world itself. With a climate denier in charge of one of the most powerful countries, we could see an irreversible change to our planet's climate. We must hope that he shows more restraint towards the natural world than he has previously suggested, or he could single-handedly become the largest environmental disaster in living memory.

Let's hope we're proved wrong.

Words Mel Ramsay & Kim Holman

Featured Image Credit: PA Images

Topics: Environment, climate change, Donald Trump, Barack Obama