Trump’s UN Speech Reveals Corporate Neofascism as Biggest Enemy of Nature and Planet Earth!
P J James
During his first term itself, as the staunchest critic of climate science and policies, far-right, neofascist Trump had proved himself the deadly enemy of all efforts towards a pro-nature development paradigm. His withdrawal from Paris Agreement was its telltale example. However, Trump’s tirade against climate science including the total denial of “climate change” at UN General Assembly (UNGA) on 23 September, has surpassed all limits in this regard. As president of USA, his characterization of climate change as the “greatest con job perpetrated on earth”, “carbon footprint a hoax”, etc., exposes him as the biggest enemy of climate politics and biggest facilitator of corporate plunder of nature today. While Trump utters such irresponsible comments, ocean warming and sea-level rising coupled with extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent.
Of course, as a reckless real estate developer rather a statesman, Trump is the true spokesperson and champion of the corporate billionaires whose major share of wealth now comes from plunder of nature along with that of labour as usual. His statement also brings to the fore the role of all far-right neofascist regimes who are hands in glove with reactionary corporate billionaires. And, more surprising is so called world leaders’ total silence on Trump’s false, baseless and irresponsible allegations against the climate interventions even by UN. Obviously, while the perpetrators of climate catastrophe are imperialist countries and leading MNCs from them, the brunt of the devastation and destruction from frequent climate changes is borne by world’s most oppressed and exploited people in Afro-Asian-Latin American countries.
Meanwhile, one of the justifications of Trump for withdrawing from Paris Accord was that “America was paying so much more than every country”. But, what Trump covered up was the fact that since 1850, it was the US that contributed 24% of the human-caused carbon dioxide. This is one of the reasons for biggest increases in global temperatures over the past 40 years. On the other hand, the entire African continent with 4 times the population of the US is responsible for only 3% of global carbon emission.
In fact, while Trump questions all climate interventions as “stupid”, at the floor of UNGA, it is an insult to all environmental initiatives undertaken by UN affiliated institutions and arrangements like United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, etc. To be precise, Trump and his project MAGA, together with the coterie of corporate billionaires with him, have now become the biggest enemy, not only of the working and oppressed peoples of the world, but also the very sustenance of nature and planet earth itself.
