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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump to Reverse Obama's Inclusion of Climate Change as Threat to National Security
BY HARRIET SINCLAIR ON 12/18/17 AT 7:19 AM
Donald Trump is set to drop climate change as a national security threat, as part of a new National Security Strategy that will be released on Monday.
In a speech that is expected to prioritize the presidents America first security blueprint, the threat of climate change will be downplayed in a sharp change of tack from the Obama administrationwhich emphasized it as one of the biggest threats facing the U.S.
Reporting Trumps plans to reverse the Obama-era policy that included climate change as a national security threat, The Federalist quoted the document as saying: US leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth energy agenda that is detrimental to US economic and energy security interests.
Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty, it added.
An early draft of the strategy, seen by the Associated Press, complained the U.S. had disadvantaged itself by being involved in multinational agreements such as those working toward combating climate change.
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Donald Trump to Reverse Obama's Inclusion of Climate Change as Threat to National Security (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
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Vinca
(50,318 posts)1. Tell that to the Navy.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)2. Stupid evil mother fucker.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)3. Oh I hate this jerk.
he is sooooooooo stupid.
LakeVermilion
(1,044 posts)4. History will note that
our president is an idiot.
spanone
(135,898 posts)5. this ignorant, complicit republican congress better wake up soon
JDC
(10,135 posts)6. He is a petty piece of trash