Remember how the first incarnation of a Trump presidency was supposed to be pretty well curtains for Planet Earth? Well, don’t worry: we are all going to be just fine this time around. Why? Because Al Gore assures us so. ‘The global sustainability revolution is unstoppable,’ he declared in a statement following Trump’s speech. ‘Now is the time for governors, mayors, business leaders and investors, and activists, to put their heads down and do the work that will advance the climate solutions that our nation and the world so urgently need.’
In other words, don’t worry about Trump. The US president is going to be an irrelevance because all the nice people in the world have decided that they are going to go green. Few will want to take up Trump’s invitation to ‘drill, baby drill’. The smart money will be going into wind farms and the like regardless.
There are just a few problems reconciling Gore’s fantasy world with reality.
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