The Atlantic
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Frida Ghitis: If Donald Trump wins a second term, the U.S. is in for four years of relentless carbon pollution.
She asks: How damaging could it be to our collective climate outcome? Ghitis asks: A second Trump term would surely be damaging, but wouldn’t doom the planet.
She says a public reckoning is coming whether he wins or not.
Frida Ghitis : Without major efforts to eliminate all carbon emissions now, the Earth will be doomed to another degree or two of warming down the line.
She says a Trump term would be harmful yet recoverable, but more specifically, he thinks the U.S. would be shooting itself in the foot. The transition to renewable energy is now inevitable, Ghitis writes.
Both scientists’ perspectives rest on the assumption that people will decide to stabilize the global temperature because, as Levermann says, “that’s the rational thing to do.” A United States led by Donald Trump simply won’t be one of them, Levermann said.
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