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The Trump administration backed away from policies meant to reduce carbon emissions, and promoted policies meant to increase energy independence through increas
by stouset 2y ago
The Trump administration backed away from policies meant to reduce carbon emissions, and promoted policies meant to increase energy independence through increased reliance on and use of fossil fuels. The same administration also rolled back nearly 100 separate environmental regulations. It supported developing energy reserves on federally protected land, including national forests and near national monuments.
Trump himself has regularly expressed skepticism over anthropogenic global warming.
I’m… genuinely not sure you can reconcile this with a claim of him being an environmentalist on any axis.
- dylan604 2y agoI don't know what I read to get a totally opposite meaning of the original comment, but rereading it now does make this ID10T level of WTF
- lolinder 2y agoI modified my original comment to replace "people" with "environmentalist" in the first sentence to clarify what I meant—you probably read it before I did that. Sorry.
- stouset 2y agoI mean there are definitely some misguided people who claim to believe just that, so I was trying to take you seriously :)