Well he does have a point. Overall, he's wrong, but that doesn't mean his point isn't valid at this time.
While there are many sources that show compelling evidence that CO2 output has been increasing steadily and at a similar rate as to how much carbon we've been putting into the atmosphere, there are also many sources that show the climate has changed quite drastically before humans even existed.
I agree that adding unnatural CO2 to the atmosphere, is not a good idea, and most certainly will eventually lead to serious problems. Removing mass amounts of green space at the same time, that absorbs that CO2, just makes it worse.
The question is of course, how much harm are we really doing, and how much is to much? We can get an approximate idea of how much is our fault, but how much is to much, is all just educated guesses. There are just way to many variables to take into account, that nobody can truly know exactly what's to much.
Now does that mean we should just push the limit and regret that we didn't take the safe and easy route earlier? Absolutely not. Green energy is no doubt the right way forward. Not just because its clean, but because its renewable and sustainable.
I think Trump and his push for oil is mostly to bring jobs and prosperity to Americans again. Which I believe it will do just that, like back in the 60's. Causing more damage to the environment in the process however, is a huge negative effect, but a lot of people will turn a blind eye to that if they are financially stable because of it. Until its to late of course, then everyone will want green energy and will demand it NOW, as per usual.
I for one am all for green energy, I used to build substations as well as wire up transformers for solar and wind parks. First things first, wind and solar farms make way to much money, that needs to be changed. Wind even makes money sometimes when the turbines aren't spinning, and that needs to change.
Then what needs to happen, considering the biggest hurdle is the rich and powerful oil interests, is government policy that forces big oil to build a lot of renewable energy for each liter of oil extracted. Not like the energy credits now either. A policy that really pushes the oil companies to put most of their profits into renewables. Most oil companies already own the majority of the renewables because they buy all the projects up, or fund them to begin with, this just needs to pushed much harder with a lot more invested into green energy.
It's not going to be an easy fix no matter how you slice it, but a future based on oil, like back in the 50's and 60's, is going to lead to major problems worldwide sooner or later, and the sooner we push to make green energy a priority, the better off the future will be.
