Klaus-Gerd Giesen
@KlausGerdGiesen@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"President is not only working to stop a transition away from fuels in the U.S., he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight and instead burn more , and [by] applying , and other mechanisms [...] His animus is particularly focused on the , which is a well-established and growing source of in several countries as well as in and ."

nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about power, pure and simple. Trump is expanding his own personal power in every direction he can — over Congress, over universities, over civil society, and over American business."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #economy
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"

“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy