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arenean

(456 posts) Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:23 AM Jan 2020

Trump decries climate 'prophets of doom' as he hails 1tn trees plan

Environmentalists question president’s attempt to show green credentials in Davos

Donald Trump has sought to defuse growing criticism of his approach to the climate crisis by hailing his support for an initiative to plant a trillion trees in the next 10 years as a sign of his green credentials.

In a thinly veiled attack on the activist Greta Thunberg, he used a keynote address at the World Economic Forum to reject the “perennial prophets of doom” and “predictors of the apocalypse”.

The US president said he was “a big believer in the environment” in a speech that listed his achievements since entering the White House three years ago.

From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/21/trump-climate-1tn-trees-davos

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Trump decries climate 'prophets of doom' as he hails 1tn trees plan (Original Post) arenean Jan 2020 OP

another scam by the grifter. Thomas Hurt Jan 2020 #1

He's selling seeds now? Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #2

Huh. Those are mighty big words for dimwit donnie Alliepoo Jan 2020 #3

It's been about 80 years now since the government had a tree-planting program... Archae Jan 2020 #4

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

1. another scam by the grifter.

Reply to arenean (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:37 AM

Jan 2020

Wounded Bear

(58,755 posts)

2. He's selling seeds now?

Reply to arenean (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:40 AM

Jan 2020

Simplistic, I know, but Trump never does anything without a personal angle. Maybe he's starting a Trump Gardening and Tree Service scam.

Alliepoo

(2,230 posts)

3. Huh. Those are mighty big words for dimwit donnie

Reply to arenean (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:56 AM

Jan 2020

To pronounce and read off of the teleprompter.

Archae

(46,361 posts)

4. It's been about 80 years now since the government had a tree-planting program...

Reply to arenean (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:59 AM

Jan 2020

The "Civilian Conversation Corps."

Two of my uncles were part of it, and we can tell, especially in northern Wisconsin where they planted trees, there are a number of forests where the trees are mostly all pines, in rows.

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