Why you should vote for Trump — or not: 6

Sue Nethercott
6 min readNov 2, 2024

He’s lazy and ignorant and bad for the environment and science, and even staunch Republicans won’t vote for him.

List of contents of this series of 6 articles

He’s bad for the environment

He said global warming is ‘a good thing’. But he’ll say anything. On his inauguration day he said it did not rain while he was speaking, when anyone could see that it did.

He withdrew the US from the Paris agreement. He nominated climate sceptic Kathleen Hartnett White to lead the Council on Environmental Quality (the nomination was later withdrawn).

According to Bill McKibben, “Donald Trump gets everything wrong about the climate crisis”. He wants to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’. He opened Alaskan wilderness up for oil drilling

VP wannabe JD Vance is strongly against the Inflation Reduction Act, even though it is benefiting his home town and will cut emissions by a million tons a year.

Trump rolled back more than 100 environmental rules, including regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers. He pressurized the EPA to downplay harms from chemicals. He nominated Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist.

He’s bad for science

Trump said, ‘I have a natural instinct for science’. He was only 6 letters out — he’s…

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Sue Nethercott
Sue Nethercott

Written by Sue Nethercott

Open University BA, UMIST MSc, OU BSc Environmental Studies. Interests: environment, COVID19. Double #ostomate. Thom Hartmann’s newsletter editor. Views my own.

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