'These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives,' the president said.
Donald Trump seemingly took a swipe at climate activists during his speech at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos, Switzerland.
"These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives," Trump said.He then went on to attack what he described as"radical" socialism while defending free market values. In the speech, Trump also announced that the United States would be joining the one trillion trees initiative. This project involves connecting funders with forest conservation ventures in order to protect and restore one trillion trees around the world by 2050.
"Restoration of trees may be 'among the most effective strategies,' but it is very far indeed from 'the best climate change solution available,' and a long way behind reducing fossil fuel emissions to net zero," Myles Allen, a geosystem science professor at Oxford University in the U.K., told AFP."Yes, heroic reforestation can help, but it is time to stop suggesting there is a 'nature-based solution' to ongoing fossil fuel use. There isn't. Sorry.
"To assume that you can have a great, profitable America, and happy Americans without understanding the risk to Americans from climate change is astounding," she told."It just demonstrates the level of denial, and the capture of this government by the coal, oil and gas industries."
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