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Project 2025 Won’t Listen to Climate Scientists
Non-scientists: Read beneath the surface
Climate change is a real threat. You — wherever you live on this planet — may have recently experienced fire or flood yourself.
Historically, it is not normal. It is human-caused. Scientists agree.
Project 2025 wants you to believe that this scientific assessment is imaginary or at least debatable and that we can go on extracting and burning fossil fuels.
We can’t.
You don’t need to be a scientist to understand what the Project 2025 document says. You just have to read a little beneath the surface.
Project 2025 Says Regular People Are Trying to Scare You
The document says:
“there has been a return to fear-based rhetoric within the [Environmental Protection] agency, especially as it pertains to the perceived threat of climate change. Mischaracterizing the state of our environment generally and the actual harms reasonably attributable to climate change specifically is a favored tool that the Left uses to scare the American public.”
A tool to scare us?
But all of us can see and feel the effects of climate change.
Is it colder or hotter than you remember in years past?
Denialism of Climate Change
Climate scientists are telling us that what is needed is immediate economic transformation away from fossil fuels.
Project 2025 is trying to thwart this because, in their view, it won’t serve U.S. economic and security interests. They’d rather scrape the last available fossil fuels from a dying, burning planet.
To Project 2025, the idea of a real climate policy — one that actually moves us off fossil fuels — is essentially invalid.
In consequence, they don’t believe that any federal agency should have a climate mandate, nor do they want any federal agency to consider climate in a meaningful way that would result in climate-informed choices.
Accordingly, the Project 2025 policy document says the US should withdraw from climate…
