Summary
Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, including Chris Wright for energy secretary, Lee Zeldin for EPA head, and Doug Burgum for interior secretary, reflect a strong pro-fossil fuel stance and skepticism or outright denial of climate science.
Wright, a fossil fuel executive and climate change denier, exemplifies the administration’s alignment with Project 2025, a plan to dismantle environmental protections.
Critics warn these appointments will stall clean energy progress and weaken air and water protections.
Trump’s choices signal a rollback of climate action despite global momentum toward renewable energy investments.
We are now up to 3.1 C of warming by the end of the century.
If we actually all followed the Paris Accords, starting now, we’d still be looking at 2.6 to 2.8 C by end of century.
We basically blew through 1.5 C this year.
(Notice how mainstream news in the US basically just stopped emphatically reporting on this?)
So, basically, we will likely continue to do far, far less than the mitigation required to even stabilize the warming… until modern global capitalism first stalls, then collapses under the weight of its own externalities.
… At which point billions will die over about a decade from starvation/climate disasters.
And that’s just humans.