Run Away From Oil: Should Trump Can Save The Oil Industry?
Run Away from Oil – Not even Trump can Save the Oil Industry
Millions of people displaced, starving, and fighting each other to survive. This is the future of humanity in a world ravaged by climate change’s effects. Without taking action, powerful storms, droughts, and food shortages will only grow more severe; experts predict that 250 million will flee their countries by 2050. Sea levels will rise by almost two feet, flooding major coastal cities and leaving millions without access to food, water, or clean infrastructure. The lack of resources will bring about internal conflict, turning human beings against each other.
Fortunately, most of America and the world has realized the negative impacts of climate change. A survey conducted annually …show more content…
After much outcry from Democrats and citizens around the U.S, he’s “ready and willing to make a deal" on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. This stands in stark contrast to his view before the election in which he vowed to shut any pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants currently in the United States and would deport them.
All these inconsistencies demonstrate that the oil industry can’t count on Trump to be its cheerleader. Trump has even begun to wobble on his firm stance against climate change because of public pressure. Trump allowed tax incentives for wind and solar energy to survive in the GOP tax bill and has claimed that he now feels “very strongly about the environment,” so he could “conceivably go back in[to]” the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
As the pressure to combat climate change increases, Trump will keep slipping in his tug of war, until he finally lets go of the rope. Even if Trump sticks to his current views on energy and climate change, there’s only so much one person can do to retaliate against market forces. Because the oil industry has lost its competitive advantage over alternative energy (cost) and more people are accepting human-induced climate change, it’s only a matter of time before oil
Millions of people displaced, starving, and fighting each other to survive. This is the future of humanity in a world ravaged by climate change’s effects. Without taking action, powerful storms, droughts, and food shortages will only grow more severe; experts predict that 250 million will flee their countries by 2050. Sea levels will rise by almost two feet, flooding major coastal cities and leaving millions without access to food, water, or clean infrastructure. The lack of resources will bring about internal conflict, turning human beings against each other.
Fortunately, most of America and the world has realized the negative impacts of climate change. A survey conducted annually …show more content…
After much outcry from Democrats and citizens around the U.S, he’s “ready and willing to make a deal" on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. This stands in stark contrast to his view before the election in which he vowed to shut any pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants currently in the United States and would deport them.
All these inconsistencies demonstrate that the oil industry can’t count on Trump to be its cheerleader. Trump has even begun to wobble on his firm stance against climate change because of public pressure. Trump allowed tax incentives for wind and solar energy to survive in the GOP tax bill and has claimed that he now feels “very strongly about the environment,” so he could “conceivably go back in[to]” the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
As the pressure to combat climate change increases, Trump will keep slipping in his tug of war, until he finally lets go of the rope. Even if Trump sticks to his current views on energy and climate change, there’s only so much one person can do to retaliate against market forces. Because the oil industry has lost its competitive advantage over alternative energy (cost) and more people are accepting human-induced climate change, it’s only a matter of time before oil