Trump and an uncertain future
I am not sure what you feel about the recent election, but I know that we are heading into a future where it is going to be very hard to predict some of the outcomes of recent events. I don’t know if this is going to be a good four-eight years, I don’t know if good or bad will happen. What I do know is that this presidential election and Trumps term as president are going to be one for the history books, I know that even though I didn’t think that he would be my first choice[1], we now have to live with it for at least the next four years and hope to whatever deity you may or may not pray to that Donald J. Trump, will be a good president. Now on to the science part of this physics essay. Trump has stated in tweets that he believes climate change is a plot by the Chinese to weaken American manufacturing. This is not true, everyone but Donald Trump knows this. While we do not know if he has changed his stance on that because in his speech at an oil industry conference in North Dakota. He ignored it for the most part, he talked about guns, rising crime in cities, he even talked about The Wall (you know what one I’m talking about), but he left climate change alone. Something we do know is that he ahs talked about dismantling Obama’s climate policies, and he has even said that he wishes to cancel the Paris climate agreements (the one where every country on earth pledged to find ways to combat climate change). His reasoning behind this, he doesn’t want foreign bureaucrats deciding how America should use its energy. Which would be a viable concern, except that’s not how the agreement works, it works by every country submitting their own plan and then everybody helping everybody to enact them. All in all if Trump sticks to his guns, then it could be a very bleak future for all of us. Which is why we all have to hope that either he gets some better advisers or start changing his policies regardless.
[1] I want to point out that while I said Trump wouldn’t be my first pick, doesn’t mean Clinton was either. In my opinion there were no good candidates.