scholarly journals Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Johan Nordensvard ◽  
Markus Ketola
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Donald Trump

Rolling Back Climate Regulation: Trump’s Assault on the Planet

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Corporate Crime ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Climate Regulation ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Trump Administration

The Donald Trump administration has engaged in a number of crimes related to climate change. This article examines these climate crimes, in particular, the administration’s organized denial of global warming and its political omissions concerning the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions that result in the rollback of existing regulatory policies related to the climate crisis. This criminality is explored through the lens of the concept of state–corporate crime, a concept utilized by a number of green criminologists to analyze environmental harms. The Trump administration’s rollback of climate change regulations is first located within its historical, political, and social contexts. Then, the specific actions and political omissions that constitute these rollbacks are described and analyzed as state–corporate environmental crimes.

US backsliding will drag on global climate progress

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Action

Subject The Paris Agreement and US withdrawal. Significance President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change on June 1, prompting criticism from around the world. While current pledges are unlikely to change and the agreement will not see flight or withdrawal by other countries, US withdrawal imperils the ability of the agreement’s structure to accelerate climate action to a scale necessary to meet its objective of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees centigrade by 2100. Impacts The US private sector and sub-national polities will increase their climate action, though the loss of federal support will still be felt. A future US administration could re-enter the agreement, but substantial momentum will be lost diplomatically in the intervening years. Calls for greater adaptation -- rather than mitigation -- funds from climate-vulnerable states will grow more strident.

scholarly journals Understanding Persistence in the Resistance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana R Fisher ◽  
Lorien Jasny
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
Differential Participation ◽  
Unique Dataset

Since Donald Trump’s Inauguration, large-scale protest events have taken place around the US, with many of the biggest events being held in Washington, DC. The streets of the nation’s capital have been flooded with people marching about a diversity of progressive issues including women’s rights, climate change, and gun violence. Although research has found that these events have mobilized a high proportion of repeat participants who come out again-and-again, limited research has focused on understanding differential participation in protest, especially during one cycle of contention. This paper, accordingly, explores the patterns among the protest participants to understand differential participation and what explains persistence in the Resistance. In it, we analyze a unique dataset collected from surveys conducted with a random sample of protest participant at the largest protest events in Washington, DC since the inauguration of Donald Trump. Our findings provide insights into repeat protesters during this cycle of contention. The paper concludes by discussion how our findings contribute to the research on differential participation and persistence.

scholarly journals Unsustainable Borders: Globalization in a Climate-Disrupted World

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Simon Dalby
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Severe Climate Change

   Climate change and the responses to it reveal starkly different assumptions about borders, security and the ethical communities for whom politicians and activists speak. Starting with the contrasting perspectives of international activist Greta Thunberg and United States President Donald Trump on climate change this essay highlights the diverse political assumptions implicit in debates about contemporary globalization. Rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions and increasingly severe climate change impacts and accelerating extinctions are the new context for scholarly work in the Anthropocene. Incorporating insights from earth system sciences and the emerging perspectives of planetary politics suggests a novel contextualization for contemporary social science which now needs to take non-stationarity and mobility as the appropriate context for investigating contemporary transformations. The challenge for social scientists and borders scholars is to think through how to link politics, ethics and bordering practices in ways that facilitate sustainability, while taking seriously the urgency of dealing with the rapidly changing material context that globalization has wrought.

The United States and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Mohit Khubchandani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
Domestic Policies

In June 2017, US President Donald Trump announced that the US ‘will withdraw from the Paris Accord’. This paper argues that the US is still a party to the Paris Agreement and that its current domestic policies, such as revocation of the Clean Power Plan and lifting the Coal Moratorium, constitute an internationally wrongful act.

scholarly journals The Third World War: A Look at the Implications of Climate Change on Global, National Security

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Lauren Schlusser
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Third World ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Third World War

President Donald Trump ran to be president of the United States on a platform rife with statements denouncing the credibility of anthropogenic — man-made — climate change. In a separate, but equally important, vein, President Trump also expressed a commitment to ensure the security of US citizens both domestically and abroad. Today, however, it’s difficult to address national security effectively without simultaneously addressing global climate change. The two issues are intimately interwoven, and ignoring one issue will compromise the success of solving the other.

scholarly journals Candidates Have Dustup over Climate in First Debate

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Donald Trump

During the first presidential candidate debate Monday, Donald Trump denied saying that climate change is a hoax, but his own tweets show otherwise.

scholarly journals Climate Politics and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-282
Author(s):  
Felipe Leal Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Order ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Common But Differentiated Responsibilities ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The election of Donald Trump brought disarray to the climate change regime. The changes in what was up to then a promoter of the liberal international order (LIO) exacerbated existing tensions while creating new ones. This paper investigates how that challenge impacted the behaviours of Brazil, China and the European Union (EU) by comparatively analysing their dissimilar positions with respect to three indicators before and after Trump’s coming into power. These indicators are individual pledges and climate-related policies; approaches to climate finance; and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC). The analysis first shows how the US started eroding the broader LIO and the climate change regime to then delve into the behaviours of the three respective key players concerning climate talks. I sustain that the EU, despite its inner divisions, is already counteracting Washington, whereas China is combining a pro-status quo position based on a rhetorical condemnation of the United States. Brazil, in turn, had a transition towards a climate-sceptic government, shifting from being a cooperative actor to abdicating hosting the COP25.

scholarly journals Pitfalls in Global Warming Policy-Making: Reneging as an Alternative of Action

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Coordination Failures ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa

<p><em>The coincidence of the COP22 conference in Morocco and the election victory of Donald Trump is indeed a contradiction. The UN needs quickly to begin making the implementation of the COP21 Agreement goals operational—a gigantic management task for this century. But the USA may be the first nation to go at the Achilles heel of the entire COP21 project, namely reneging. Here, I list some of the major pitfalls with the endeavours of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which has not taken the lessons from the social sciences about coordination failures into account.</em></p>

Personality and adherence to international agreements: the case of President Donald Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 004711782096565
Author(s):  
Scott Fitzsimmons
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
High Level

Although Donald Trump’s foreign policy behavior is often characterized as erratic and unpredictable, he is remarkably consistent in his hostility toward international agreements. The president has withdrawn or threatened to withdraw the United States from several agreements and has consistently characterized agreements as “horrible deals” that “cheat” his country. This article explores why Trump exhibits such consistent disdain for international agreements. To address this question, it develops propositions that draw a causal link between a leader’s personality traits and their willingness to challenge constraints: a leader with a relatively high belief in their ability to control events is more likely to challenge constraints than a leader with a lower belief in their ability to control events; moreover, a leader with a relatively high level of distrust of others is more likely to challenge constraints than a leader with a lower level of distrust of others. It then conducts a plausibility test of these propositions in the context of Trump’s decisions to withdraw from agreements in three significant policy areas: trade (the Trans-Pacific Partnership), environmental stewardship (the Paris Agreement on climate change), and nuclear proliferation (the Iran nuclear deal).

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