I’m fairly certain some readers checked out my cartoon right now and, for at the very least a number of seconds, thought, “Now Trump desires to revive the whale oil business?”
Within the madcap MAGA period, it could be very onerous for a political cartoonist to make use of exaggeration as a instrument. Political actuality is now so surreal that it’s robust to give you a little bit of satire that may exceed that weirdness. However I needed to attempt.
No, Trump isn’t bringing again whale oil as an vitality supply — at the very least not but — however he’s doing all he can to advertise fossil fuels — together with the nineteenth century’s favourite and dirtiest, coal — while seriously undermining development of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.
A month in the past, the president delivered a meandering, overly lengthy speech on the United Nations through which he berated Europeans for turning to renewable vitality. He asserted that the “double-tailed monster” of vitality and immigration was destroying Europe and that solely fossil fuels may save them.
“You want sturdy borders and conventional vitality sources in the event you’re going to be nice once more,” Trump declared.
Trump, America’s most infamous con man, informed the UN Normal Meeting that local weather change science was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” concocted by scientists who were “stupid people.”
What is actually, deeply silly is Trump’s unilateral give up to China on vitality. Whereas the Trump administration is slashing billions and billions of {dollars} of funding for renewable vitality packages within the USA, China has taken the lead in growing the vitality sources of the long run, wind and photo voltaic.
Thus, whereas China and Europe live within the twenty first century, Trump is dragging America again to the vitality plan of 1925. So, why would he cease there? Why not dial it again to 1825 and convey on the whale oil?
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