The biggest problem is gradual deterioration of the rule of law and functioning of the civil government

Isn't "bringing us to the brink of extinction" rather hyperbolic? As far as I know there is no indication that climate change will be an extinction-level threat? What it will be is hugely damaging for all sorts of other reasons, both to humans and other life.

Beyond that, I agree with you, and it's one of my major concerns as well.

If we had a functioning congress, laws could be set. The president really is not _meant_ to have a lot of power here. Administrations have been trying to do more, as congress really won't pass laws any longer. However, each administration just throws out the policies of the last administration. Actually passing laws in congress does not necessarily have this same problem.

I am not sure that's the case. The main supporter is a guy who produces e-cars with all the interests to sell more of them.

The way I see it, he will continue with the transition whenever it benefits him/the country. Which means some programs might be canceled, especially if they go against such interests.

It would appear that neither party actually does anything to change the rate of CO2 emissions.

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as someone from eu - doesn't us now/under dems extract top amount of fossils from all the time? I mean it's not like it was good now. It looks like it'll get worse but the current path wasn't good either...

When someone's grocery bill exceeds 40% of their total income, they're not going to worry about the climate.

Climate change won’t bring us to the brink of extinction.

It will cause huge amounts of human suffering though.

What about the threats to civil liberties, especially for women and LGBT+ people?

> most/all of the climate policies will be revered irreparably damaging our planet bringing us to the brink of extinction

The valid policies will remain. I've been hearing the rest for decades now.

I was of the impression that US contribution to global emissions was relatively low for our population size and per capita energy usage thus making domestic climate change policy relatively small potatoes. Is that not true? Is there more to it than that?

He already pulled the US out of the Paris accord his last presidency and the US is producing all-time high oil.

I guess another angle is that he is best buddies with Elon who could potentially do some interesting things there.

Its increasingly difficult for me to believe that climate change is a critical issue when the attendees of World Economic Forum + Al Gore + Bill Gates + Leanardo Dicaprio all fly around in private jets while lecturing me on why i should be not be eating meat.

What could Trump do in that respect? Bring back coal? Coal isn't coming back. The economics aren't there short of literally paying for the burning of coal. And while Trump seems to lean into the AGW deniers, he does seem to at least respect reducing the classic "silent spring" sorts of pollution that obviously dirty air and water.

US oil production is the highest in the world, the highest in its history, and is so maxed out that there are loads of drilling rights that aren't even being exercised as oil companies all realized that it was pyrrhic with current low oil prices.

On the climate position I don't think things can go back. Wind, solar and evolving nuclear just make it a silly thing to do.

Emissions in the US are pretty much negligible compared to China and India. It would have to be a radical shift that is going to take way more than four years to make US climate policy even relevant to the planet as a whole.

I think this is doubtful, and it's a testament to the way the IRA was written. There are now bipartisan constituencies who support different parts of it. And there was no real chance we were going to get anything new on the climate regardless of the outcome. I think this issue will just be status quo for this term.

The biggest problem is the climate to those who profit off this agenda.

Climate policies were already getting gutted under this administration due to reversal of Chevron deference by SCOTUS (packed by previous Trump/Pence administration).

EPA and other regulatory agencies have been stripped of their regulatory powers. Any “vague” law which was interpreted by agencies can now be challenged in courts.

We don’t need climate policy any more. Solar is by a wide margin the cheapest electricity and will continue growing at a wild pace.

For me the biggest problem is Ukraine, the country I live next to. Trump is more than happy to pull out of NATO

World War 3 is clearly a bigger problem than the climate.

States like New York and California can become Carbon Negative on their own if they wanted to.

The Federal government is not needed for liberals to take the lead on this, but the mediocre center left Democrats who run everything in Blue States refuse to lift a finger.

Maybe Elon can do something about that once he’s on the cabinet.

Really? Are you still buying all your stuff from China where they are standing up new coal plants every day? Just because the pollution doesn't happen here doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

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Climate policies have failed. They're all either empty signaling exercises (carbon offsets, CAFE standards) or economically ruinous proposals to deliberately impoverish people (degrowth). The Paris accords penalize developed economies while giving developing countries a pass on emissions and an unfair advantage in trade. This idea that we can just sit down in a room with all the world's leaders and agree to just reduce emissions is a fantasy.

The real climate policy we need, and one we might just get from the incoming administration, is support for startups that explore new geoengineering technology. We've on our way to being Kardashev type I civilization, and as such, we should establish explicit closed-loop control over our climate.

I feel like they were not only the most useless policies, with decades away targets, but also had the most damage on labour, see car manufacturers all in crisis cutting jobs

I also expect Trump to roll back many of those policies and create new, worse ones like opening up more federal land for drilling and mining.

That said, you must have a lot more faith in the current policies than I do. The sole focus on limiting carbon in the atmosphere has been woefully misguided in my opinion. We need to focus on reducing our total impact on the planet, not just trying to mitigate it a bit while we continue to consume more resources and use use more energy every year.

If human impact on the planet is going to kill us all with Trump in office, it was going to happen either way.