Donald Trump and Elon Musk do not agree about the climate emergency. In their X pre-election livestream, Musk argued that fossil fuels will run out in the long term, and rising CO2 levels will give people “headaches and nausea … [making it] uncomfortable to breathe”. He thinks we “should just generally lean in the direction of sustainability”. Trump’s line is erratic rather than specious: he praises Musk’s EVs but rambles about “nuclear warming” and the need to expand energy infrastructure to feed AI – literally “Drill baby, drill.” The only thing they really seem to agree on is that they don’t ...
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