With Trump as our president, many issues about national government are quick to arise, one including the United States attitude towards climate change. Former President Obama had a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by seventeen percent from the 2005 levels. This was done by enforcing the use of solar, wind, and geothermal energy which had effectively reduced carbon pollutions, making the country more energy secure than it had been in the past. I think that our current president, Donald Trump, does not approve of these efforts. He is trying to dismiss these issues and is prioritizing other problems such as increasing the number of jobs in our country. He says that building a strong economy is the key to protecting the environment. More effort should be put to protect the efforts former President Obama enforced that would help the environment. When Trump gained office, he did not have views that would support the environment. Recently, he signed an executive order that aimed at...
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