In a 55-minute speech on Tuesday that defied the very mission of the United Nations itself, US President Donald Trump called global warming “a con job”, European policies on clean energy “suicidal”, and accused the UN of offering little more than “empty words”.
The remarks were Trump’s first of his second term in office, and much of it focused on brandishing his domestic achievements and deriding the UN and other countries’ policies on immigration, peacemaking, climate change and multilateralism.
The president said his country was now in a “golden age”, and imparted lessons to “the free world”: close your borders, and return to traditional energy sources. “Your countries are going to hell,” he said.
Like what, horses and oxen? Or does he mean the historically very recently invented newfangled oil and coal power? Not to mention if you compare it with the time our species existed, domestication of animals is also pretty recent occurence, idk if it can be even called “traditional”
Now i know where von der Leyen is taking direct inspiration from.
If you want traditional, the sun has an impressively long tradition as an energy source.
Which reminds me, we haven’t send it an offering in ages. Can’t expect the old chap to work for free.
True.
traditional is always whatever was happening when they were a kid. born in '46, so just in time for the total dominance of oil.