2023-08-24 20:17:00
The subject gave rise to one of the strongest exchanges of the debate, addressed following 20 minutes by the presenters: “If you think that climate change is caused by human activities, raise your hand”, they said. asked the eight contenders for the White House.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, currently second in the polls behind Donald Trump, cut off the question, leaving the candidates free to keep their hands down regardless of their true answer. But one of them, the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is benefiting from a surge in opinion polls, seized the opportunity.
“Propagating the climate change thesis is a deception,” he said. “The reality is that more people die from bad climate policies than from climate change itself.”
A little earlier, he had called for “liberating the American energy potential”, in particular by “burning coal”.
Democratic President Joe Biden immediately reacted on X (ex-Twitter): “Climate change is real.”
And the reactions rocketed among climate experts.
The Republican Party “is not only a threat to the nation, it is to the planet,” said Michael Mann, a famous climatologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
The group Climate Power, calling the sequence “the worst in politics”, noted that Vivek Ramaswamy was booed by the public following saying the word deception. “Republicans will face the consequences of their denial” at the polls, the organization said.
“Young Americans, including 88% of conservatives, want an action plan once morest climate change,” also noted Christopher Barnard, president of the American Conservation Coalition.
This right-wing organization on the contrary praised the statements of the only female Republican candidate, Nikki Haley.
“Is climate change real? Yes, it is,” she was the only one to acknowledge. “But if you really want to change the environment, then we have to start telling China and India that they have to reduce their emissions.”
Syracuse University professor Farhana Sultana criticized this positioning, accusing the candidate of wanting to deflect responsibility by accusing other powers.
China emits more than twice as much CO2 as the United States per year, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), but emissions per capita are much higher in the United States, which has also historically emitted more CO2 than China.
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