Donald Trump’s victory will be remembered as a dark day for the planet

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States by a wide margin and, moreover, with control of Congress and the Senate makes me very seriously concerned not only for the United States, a country where I have lived and that I love, but for all humanity.

I’m not alone: MIT calls his win “a tragic loss” for the fight against the climate emergency, which will create delays the planet simply cannot afford. The country with the second highest levels of C02 emissions is now being run by a man who denies climate change, who has pledged to authorize oil companies to carry out additional exploration and extract everything they want from everywhere, including protected places. This is a disaster, and will set us back years.

Hope? Little: Elon Musk’s support may make it more difficult for Trump to stall the progress of EVs, but the victory of this dunce will mean a U-turn on environmental policies, as if science were a matter of opinion; however, let’s not fool ourselves, more than half of US citizens are against measures to address the climate emergency, they’re happy living in a fool’s paradise.

There is something very wrong when more than half of the citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, with access to education do not consider the climate emergency a…