Given the emotional reactions that Donald Trump and climate change each trigger separately, they are especially combustible when combined.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman worries that Trump’s election “may have killed the planet.” Activist Bill McKibben calls Trump’s plan to reverse the Obama climate agenda by approving the Keystone XL pipeline and other fossil-fuel projects, rescinding the Clean Power Plan, and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement “the biggest, most against-the-odds and most irrevocable bet any president has ever made about anything.” And let’s not forget “Zach,” the Democratic National Committee staffer who reportedly stormed out of a post-election meeting after saying, “I am going to die from climate change.”
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