Americans constitute only 4% of the global population but are responsible for 25% of the excess CO₂ in the atmosphere. As a result, a huge humanitarian disaster is unfolding, with the Indian subcontinent being the worst sufferer. However, the ego does not consider anyone or anything more significant than its own petty interests. We find this myopic and self-centered behavior in every household; it's just that this is being played out on a much grander scale.
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Questioner: Namaste. I'm Samrat. I've been living in New York for 20 years. I switched from engineering to education about 14 years ago and I've since been working as an educator with a special focus on climate education and advocacy. I have an NGO as well that works on environmental justice issues. My question today pertains to the situation that is a nightmare for all the environmentalists here in the US.
Donald Trump is once again president of the most powerful nation of the world. He represents an existential threat to pluralistic democracies. But additionally, I feel that his administration is a unique and unprecedented danger to our global climate goals. He's for the second time in history withdrawn the US from the Paris climate accords.
And in just the first few days of his presidency, he has signed a series of executive orders clearly meant to years of hard one progress in the US on climate issues. Now I have a lot of thoughts on this as an environmentalist but I'm very keen to hear your insight into this situation.
