Trump Leaks the Blueprints for the Climate Death Star

The fight against climate change is such a vast undertaking—crossing continents and decades—that it’s hard sometimes to know when you’re striking an effective blow. But last Wednesday Donald Trump helped clear the smoke of battle for a moment, issuing a pair of executive orders that let many of us know precisely where we’d done damage, and precisely where we should push even harder in the months and years ahead.

Students, staff, and faculty lie down dressed in black to create
a human oil spill to protest “continued inaction on fossil
fuel divestment” by the Whitman College administration in 2016.

The White House issued the two executive orders to help ram through pipelines and other fossil-fuel infrastructure, even when the cities and states through which they pass oppose them, and to slow down the rush of pension funds now divesting their holdings from the fossil-fuel industry. These steps of course make a mockery of conservative claims to federalism and local decision-making—they are either one more sop to the most powerful industry on earth, or a nihilist effort to speed up climate change. Or both.

Read the story from The Nation by Bill McKibben - “Trump Leaks the Blueprints for the Climate Death Star.”