If Donald Trump wins the White House again, his love of fossil fuels and hatred of renewable energy could translate into an absolute catastrophe.
  • MrFunnyMoustache
    401·
    7 months ago

    This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The guy loves coal, oil, and gas, he hates anything renewable with almost the same passion as he hates immigrants. He will literally defund the EPA because in his mind the environment is fake news and because it will make him popular amongst rich business owners who get even richer from deregulation.

    • zigmus64@lemmy.world
      17·
      7 months ago

      I think you attribute more intent to his actions than he deserves. He “loves” coal, oil, and gas because that’s what his base wants to hear. Defunding the EPA has nothing to do with his pro or anti-climate goals. It has everything to do with the fact that the EPA is a regulatory body that increases costs for industry. Fewer road blocks, better cash flow.

      It’s not that he loves or hates any of these things… it’s all in your last sentence. The rest is just a means to an end. He just doesn’t care beyond the fact that it might keep him from him getting what he wants

      • MrFunnyMoustache
        7·
        7 months ago

        So Trump is basically like an AI that has no will of his own and is just a predictive algorithm that is trained on his fan base? That makes a surprising amount of sense when listening to his speeches, they make as much sense as a tripping LLM that was mostly trained on other AI generated text.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          And the fan base is trained on him. So Trump’s verbiage is like a preview of the internet to come: crappy articles written by AI trained on crappy articles written by AI, and reality ever receding.

      • MrFunnyMoustache
        4·
        7 months ago

        At this point I’d be surprised if there was a single oil billionaire who hasn’t donated millions to his campaigns.