By CHRISTINE RENDON
Harrison Ford has eviscerated Donald Trump again over his climate policy – despite owning a carbon-emitting private jet himself.
In an interview with The Guardian, the Indiana Jones actor, 83, said Trump’s dismantling of efforts tackling the climate crisis ‘scares the s**t out’ of him – and said he was unaware of any other ‘greater criminal in history’ than the president.
Ford, a staunch advocate for the environment who also owns a Cessna Citation Sovereign, told the publication that Trump ‘doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the s**t out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.
‘It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history,’ he added.
The president has long been a skeptic of government programs attempting to solve the issue and even declared it a hoax.
Trump, 79, began his second term less than a year ago but has already cut funding to clean energy projects, encouraged fossil fuels, and put over 1,000 EPA employees – including scientists involved in climate change research policy – on immediate notice, among other actions.
Trump has also encouraged the UK to do more oil drilling and remove their ‘ugly’ wind turbines, according to The Guardian.
Addressing the wind turbine issue, Ford told the outlet Trump was averse to them as ‘he has just not seen a gold one’.
The actor also blasted how the president’s handling of the climate crisis will be remembered by history, describing it as a ‘a clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge.’
Ford is optimistic Trump’s hopes for a fossil-fuel led future would not pull through, with the publication noting the world is leaning into cleaner sources of energy, if slowly.
‘He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie,’ he told The Guardian. ‘I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies.
