{"id":135702,"date":"2017-12-18T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135702"},"modified":"2017-12-19T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T07:36:45","slug":"trump-drops-climate-change-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/trump-drops-climate-change-national-security-threat.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump drops climate change as a national security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, in the Administration&#8217;s new National Security Strategy, it&#8217;s &#8220;an anti-growth energy agenda&#8221; that&#8217;s a threat to the world, and that only American can lead the way out of.<\/p>\n<p>Which sounds like a weaselly way of saying that climate change is too expensive to deal with, particularly in terms of energy company profits, and the oil\/coal\/gas must flow, so suck it up, future, because Donald won&#8217;t be around in a few decades, so what the hell does he care what happens then?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/12\/trump-dropping-climate-change-as-national-security-threat.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/o3A7k7icfLzIS2XACvvO17-kSng1DfRF_f834wiT3QWWP1goXm7_ub3vc7sePPZCp7JgqZ6IgLas16qEtlO14TQrA52gRqM-0UX2R0KsnQ2BcdkkJEUeXZWlUEaTm7mkuS8cxNvHHmTKRw-f9nz5e4XLQj7oPbENDQ=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/12\/trump-dropping-climate-change-as-national-security-threat.html\">Trump Administration Dropping Climate Change As National Security Threat<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHurricanes, floods, and fires don\u2019t count.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QvpKTpMi3KW\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, in the Administration&#8217;s new National Security Strategy, it&#8217;s &#8220;an anti-growth energy agenda&#8221; that&#8217;s a threat to the world, and that only American can lead the way out of. Which sounds like a weaselly way of saying that climate change is too expensive to deal with, particularly in terms of energy company profits, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/trump-drops-climate-change-national-security-threat.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump drops climate change as a national security threat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,77,131,374,358,376,1071],"tags":[1384,233,1077],"class_list":["post-135702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-economy","category-energy","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-trump","tag-bigenergy","tag-climatechange","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hurricane.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131643,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/trump-also-promises-some-noteworthy-environmental-and-energy-picks.html","url_meta":{"origin":135702,"position":0},"title":"Trump also promises some noteworthy environmental and energy picks","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Sep-16 6:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's choice to lead the transition of the EPA into his new administration? 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