MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • November 6, 2024
In the near term, climate is the most important issue for all the world. Trump will likely pull out of the Paris Agreement once again, but that will have a limited effect on other countries. He has promised to “drill, baby, drill,” but you can’t sell more oil than people are willing to buy and the world demand for oil is going into decline. Moreover, the U.S. has not built a new coal-fired power plant in over a decade because coal is simply not competitive with solar and wind energy. He will try to repeal the massive Inflation Reduction Act, Joe Biden’s big anti-global warming initiative. ~ Gwynne Dyer