Loyalists selected for important roles have offered staunch support to fossil fuels and downplayed climate crisis

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.

  • BarqsHasBite
    1•4 days ago

    As much as you may want it, you can’t change everything, everywhere, all at once. The energy system is vast beyond comprehension and it takes a ton of time and effort. You can’t snap your fingers and change everything.

    Still don’t get that to be honest.

    This is the danger of you blocking everyone, your thoughts remain unchallenged.

    • @squid_slime@lemm.ee
      1•3 days ago

      The problem is is its time we don’t have, the original 1.5 goalpost has been moved multiple times beyond what many scientists see as reasonable. In reality pandemic style measures should have been installed globally or bring the oil company’s in to answer for their immense damage like the 1986 Shell document that leaked should have been used as leverage.

      Instead we’ve sat on our fucking hands watching the sky collapse on our own heads while saying “it takes time,” “we need oil to switch the lights on,” these excuses won’t age well when we see the needle tipping with no chance to go back.

      • BarqsHasBite
        2•3 days ago

        I don’t want things to take time, but I know that things take time. I seriously wonder what work y’all do that you think the world can be overturned on a dime. I work on nothing projects in the grand scheme of thing, and they take fucking years. Even small projects we timeline them out and it’s a year for tiny things.

        What really doesn’t help is that we have to start from scratch after every republican president. Or republican congress.

        • @squid_slime@lemm.ee
          1•3 days ago

          Phrases “like hit the iron while the irons hot” “hit the ground running” and “nip it in the bud” are all great expressions. Instead we allowed ourselves to be manipulated by corporate giants. We don’t have time. This isn’t a corporate project this is life and death.

          Drastic action should have been taken.

          • BarqsHasBite
            1•3 days ago

            Holy strawman, I did not say those phrases or anything like them. And what part of “I don’t want things to take time” do you not understand? No productive conversation can be had like this, I’m out.