I’m fairly certain some readers checked out my cartoon at this time and, for at the very least just a few seconds, thought, “Now Trump desires to revive the whale oil trade?”
Within the madcap MAGA period, it may be very onerous for a political cartoonist to make use of exaggeration as a software. Political actuality is now so surreal that it’s powerful to give you a little bit of satire that may exceed that weirdness. However I needed to attempt.
No, Trump just isn’t bringing again whale oil as an power 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 during which he berated Europeans for turning to renewable power. He asserted that the “double-tailed monster” of power and immigration was destroying Europe and that solely fossil fuels may save them.
“You want robust borders and conventional power sources for those who’re going to be nice once more,” Trump declared.
Trump, America’s most infamous con man, informed the UN Basic 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 really, deeply silly is Trump’s unilateral give up to China on power. Whereas the Trump administration is slashing billions and billions of {dollars} of funding for renewable power packages within the USA, China has taken the lead in creating the power sources of the long run, wind and photo voltaic.
Thus, whereas China and Europe reside within the twenty first century, Trump is dragging America again to the power plan of 1925. So, why would he cease there? Why not dial it again to 1825 and produce on the whale oil?
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