"Maybe the biggest harm he's doing is to the United States itself, and one figure now illustrates it. China is now exporting green technology to the rest of the world that has a cumulative export value that is significantly higher than all of the fossil fuel exports from the United States to the rest of the world. And that trend is obviously accelerating quite dramatically."
"Gates, a philanthropist and founder of Microsoft, made waves around the world when he publicly argued for pushing the climate crisis down the international agenda, in favour of more focus on health issues. The idea of slowing down on climate again, every climate scientist that I know and respect just threw up their hands and said: What in the world is he thinking?' said Gore."
"Bill fired most of his climate staffers and went to the White House and lavished praise on Trump, and then put out this series of statements last week that puzzled anybody who was really concerned about the climate crisis. Gore noted that the chiefs of many large businesses in the US fear reprisals from the US president if they disagree with him,"
Fear of bullying by Donald Trump may have led Bill Gates to de-emphasize the climate crisis and prioritize health issues, provoking strong criticism from climate scientists. Donald Trump's policies are withdrawing support from renewable energy and promoting fossil fuels, damaging the US economy and ceding leadership to China in green-technology exports, whose cumulative export value now exceeds US fossil-fuel exports. That shift is accelerating. Many large US corporate leaders reportedly fear reprisals from the president and may hesitate to oppose him, potentially amplifying the administration's anti-climate impact.
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