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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:26 PM Jan 2020

Trump Just Called Climate Scientists 'Foolish Fortune Tellers'

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8dz8/trump-just-called-climate-scientists-foolish-fortune-tellers


Trump Just Called Climate Scientists ‘Foolish Fortune Tellers’

Trump once again repeated the lie that the U.S. has “the cleanest air in the world” when, in fact, his administration has made the air quality in the U.S. worse. According to the Environmental Performance Index, a metric from environmental scientists at Yale and Columbia, the U.S. ranks 10th when it comes to clean air quality.

Trump also said that today’s climate scientists are simply repeating errors of the past when “foolish fortune tellers...predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s.”

Trump labeled activists like Thunberg “alarmists” who are simply seeking “absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives.”

“We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty,” Trump added.


Note: Just a part of a much longer article. I just selected the relevant parts about his comments regarding climate change. Note the next to last paragraph. This is what Trump wants for himself.
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Trump Just Called Climate Scientists 'Foolish Fortune Tellers' (Original Post) Stonepounder Jan 2020 OP
I hope this makes more young people vote Skittles Jan 2020 #1
You're exactly right. Mariana Jan 2020 #2
We will never let radical socialists destroy our country dustyscamp Jan 2020 #3

Skittles

(157,978 posts)
1. I hope this makes more young people vote
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:41 PM
Jan 2020

I don't think today's youth has the luxury of waiting to become politically aware or active, the way previous generations did.

dustyscamp

(2,295 posts)
3. We will never let radical socialists destroy our country
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 07:02 PM
Jan 2020

But we will let a Fascist Dictator destroy our country's integrity, divide our people, destroy our relationships with other countries and eradicate our liberty

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