Trump VP pick J.D. Vance on climate: The idea of an environmental crisis was ‘created’ to please Democratic donors

Via: https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-j-d-vance-stacks-up-on-energy-environment-issues/ The senator has been dismissive of concerns about climate change. “Even if there was a climate crisis, I don’t know how the way to solve it is to buy more Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles,” he said in 2022, saying the idea of an environmental crisis was “created” to please Democratic donors. … Former President […]

Washington Post – June 15, 2024: Afghanistan’s rulers, cut off from foreign assistance, are tackling climate change on their own while debating whether it is God’s doing or a foreign plot. … Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers headed to the country’s first “international climate change conference” … Afghanistan remains a global pariah in large part because of the Taliban’s restrictions on female education, and that isolation has deprived the country of foreign funding for urgently needed measures to adapt to climate change. … 

So, for now, the Afghan government is largely confronting the impacts of global warming on its own and putting the blame for floods and sluggish governmental aid on foreigners. Some former Taliban commanders view global carbon emissions as a new invisible enemy. “Just like they invaded our country, they’ve invaded our climate,” Lutfullah Khairkhwa, the Taliban’s deputy higher education minister, said in his opening speech at the Jalalabad conference. … 

Carbon footprints will weigh heavily on judgment day, said Kabul-based imam Farisullah Azhari. “God will ask: How did you make your money? And then he will ask: How much suffering did you cause in the process?” he said in an interview.

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