With the 2024 election now one year away, The Hill recently published a series of op-eds forecasting what a second term would look like for either President Biden or former President Trump.
The op-eds – written by prominent experts in various fields and from a variety of viewpoints – are included below.
On the climate, Mann believes that though real progress was made during the Biden era, much more needs to be done, because the climate continues to warm.
He writes: "We are three years further down the carbon emissions highway, and the devastating consequences of the 1C (1.8F) warming we have already caused are now apparent in the form of unprecedented dangerous, damaging and deadly extreme weather events. As yet, we have not taken the exit ramp needed to avoid a far worse planetary warming of 1.5C (3F)."
Mann lists the steps that must be taken to avert the direst predictions, including urging developing countries to ramp down emissions.
But, he says, the U.S. must lead.
And he believes that won't happen if Trump wins the election and Republicans hold a majority in Congress. The GOP, he writes, "has threatened to weaponize a potential second Trump term against domestic climate action."
"Global climate action lies on a knife edge, hinging upon American leadership that is threatened by a prospective Trump second term and a radicalized GOP intent on undermining climate progress both here and abroad."
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
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