https://www.persuasion.community/p/putting-the-worst-green-ideas-in

> Whether Donald Trump actually believes climate change is a Chinese hoax, or whether he just says it to get under his opponents’ skin, we don’t know. What we do know is that he drips with contempt for environmentalism and those who espouse it. So it surprised no one that, amid the rash of Week One executive orders, many of them—ranging from pardoning January 6 Capitol rioters to overturning birthright citizenship by executive fiat—deeply irresponsible, he made sure to do his utmost to piss off the greens. The executive order titled “Unleashing American Energy” seems built entirely around the maxim that whatever progressive climate activists support must be bad. Environmentalists were suitably appalled, which figures: appalling them seemed to be the whole point.

> This seems like a simple story of a callous administration gleefully wrecking the environment to line the pockets of its backers in the fossil fuel industry. And there’s certainly some of that. But it’s not so simple. The green consensus overturned by Trump’s executive order was badly built around a series of half-baked ideas that create serious problems when you try to implement them. Trump has no idea, but in killing their worst ideas, he’s just done the climate movement a big favor.