The official Republican platform makes no mention of climate change. Not one word. Instead, it contains this statement: “Common Sense tells us clearly that we must unleash American Energy if we want to destroy Inflation and rapidly bring down prices, build the Greatest Economy in History, revive our Defense Industrial Base, fuel Emerging Industries, and establish the United States as the Manufacturing Superpower of the World.
We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL and we will become Energy Independent, and even Dominant again. The United States has more liquid gold under our feet than any other Nation, and it’s not even close. The Republican Party will harness that potential to power our future.
” Bill McKibben has an interesting reaction to the GOP platform. He says, “If climate change is mentioned in Milwaukee at all this week, it will be only to scorn the whole idea. As the former president said at a recent Virginia rally, ‘Global warming is fine.
In fact, I heard it was going to be very warm today. It’s fine.’ So button it, all you scientists and other wackos.
‘The ocean will rise, maybe, and it may go down, also,’ Trump added. ‘But it may rise one eighth of an inch in the next 497 years, they say, one eighth, which gives you a little bit more waterfront property if you’re lucky enough to own.'” According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , “Afghanistan remains one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the effects of climat.
