Trump targets climate policies, but market shows “unstoppable” energy shift

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1. By Jeff Young – Environment and Sustainability Editor:

   Just days after taking office, President Donald Trump delivered a blunt message on climate change to global business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland.

   “I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal, I call it the ‘Green New Scam,’ withdrew from the one-sided Paris climate accord and ended the insane and costly electric vehicle mandate,” Trump said via teleconference.

   Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/clean-energy-transition-environmental-climate-action-groups-businesses-react-donald-trump-presidency-2020657](https://www.newsweek.com/clean-energy-transition-environmental-climate-action-groups-businesses-react-donald-trump-presidency-2020657)

2. There has been a steady stream of stories echoing the exact same sentiment as this headline for weeks now. We get it.

3. The thing about the right wing globally is that they’re 90% of the time in thrall to the free market, except when cold hard free market economics clashes with their loony societal/cultural views. At that point they’ll shoot themselves in the foot and pay more just to prove a point.

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