‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of climate action advocates going ‘silent’ on the issue.

During Trump’s first term, by contrast, environmental officials like Scott Pruitt, who led the Environmental Protection Agency from February 2017 to July 2018, “would have to be very careful on climate,” Morano said. Otherwise “they would be beaten and browed by the media.”

The growing “climate hush” is not limited to the U.S. — a hushed silence about climate change has expanded across the globe.

At Davos in January, world leaders across business and government talked noticeably less about addressing climate change than in previous years.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    When your immediate threat is the largest military and surveillance apparatus in history collapsing into a fascist dictatorship, the environment is the least of your concerns.

    This is what killed me about the nazis winning America in 2024. It meant all climate goals were dead and we’d continue to hug the worst case scenarios well past 2c.