The presidential election of the United States just ended on November 8th. In these days, we can see a lot of information about the result of the election. On medias, we can see a lot of forecasts about how will the future president of the United States, Donald Trump, influence America. One aspect that US citizens care about may be the economy. People in the US are expecting what changes will Trump's administration bring to the economy. Another thing that many scientists, environmental groups care about is the new government's action to deal with climate change. I think most of the people do not disagree that human-caused climate change is one of the most urgent issues that we have to deal with. The United-States, a country that has the highest CO2 emissions per capita, plays an important role in fighting climate change.
Based on Trump's attitude to the climate change and global warming, we should not expect many actions that deal with the climate change from Trump's administration. In Trump's opinion, global warming is a hoax. He thinks that the concept of climate change restricts the development of the economy. Therefore, we can picture that dealing with climate change will not be the priority of Trump's administration. Not only the Trump's attitude to climate change makes the future actions that deal with climate change not optimistic, the future administrators of the agencies which play important roles in dealing with climate change may also suppress the movements that fight against climate change. When Trump takes over, the switches of administrators of agencies like Department Of Energy(DOE), and Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). These two agencies are responsible for supervising the government, making sure that any federal project or policy do not impact the environment too much. However, the potential candidates of administrators of these two agencies are conservative on dealing with climate change. Hence, the policies or federal projects that may post threats on the environment may face less resistance from these two agencies in the future.
In addition to the actions that deal with climate change, the development of renewable energy in the United States is also not optimistic in the following four years. From Trump's attitude, we can expect that a great portion of the federal funding will be put into the utility of fossil fuels. Therefore, the development of renewable energy in the United States may slow down. Fortunately, the development of renewable energy will not be stopped because of the decline in federal funding. Renewable energy has been proved to be competitive in the market, so we can see the increase in the utility of green and renewable energy in the future.
Although the renewable energy development and actions that deal with climate change in America do not seem optimistic in the following four years, it is hard to say what will the real condition be in the future. The things I mentioned are just the conjectures that based on the attitude of the president-elect, Donald Trump. How the United States is going to deal with climate change and develop renewable energy is still unclear and anticipated.
I really hope Trump would stay in the Paris climate deal. I know that many businesses are urging him to stay, and he should. Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement will enable and encourage businesses and investors to turn the billions of dollars in existing low-carbon investments into the trillions of dollars the world needs to bring clean energy prosperity to all, the advantages really outweigh the disadvantages.
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