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"What another Trump regime will mean for the climate fight."

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Critical reporting at a critical moment. Subscribe to The New Yorker for just $1 a week for one year. In today’s newsletter, what another Trump regime will mean for the climate fight, and then: • The Americans prepping for a second civil war • Politics dictated by attention-mining algorithms • The saga of the shipwreck detective Bill McKibben Contributing writer There’s no question that the Trump Administration will take aim at every facet of the federal government’s climate efforts—he campaigned on it, and Project 2025 outlined in detail a number of steps, right down to hobbling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration because its temperature readings helped fuel the demand for climate action. The real question is whether he’ll be able to dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act, which is scheduled to provide a decade’s worth of funding for clean-energy efforts. That pot of money—perhaps as much as a trillion dollars—represents the only substantial climate-fighting work Congress has ever done. Much of the money so far has been spent in red districts—which may provide some support. Expect an effort to protect the most fossil-fuel-friendly provisions—billions for things like carbon capture at power plants—and to strip out support for electric vehicles, heat pumps, and solar panels. Our Previous Coverage  Annals of Technology Trump’s War on Science From 2016: The President-elect’s cabinet appointments speak to a harsh reality: this is an anti-science Administration. By Lawrence M. Krauss  Trump and the Truth Trump’s Climate-Change Denial From 2016: The Republican nominee’s energy plan would essentially reverse every step Obama has made toward reducing carbon emissions and meeting the goals established in Paris. By Carolyn Kormann  Daily Comment Trump and the Climate-Change Countdown From 2016: He has called climate change a “hoax,” and has said he would “rescind” the Clean Power Plan if he is elected President. By Elizabeth Kolbert  California Chronicles Trump’s Battle with California and the Climate From 2019: The President’s adversarial stance is helping to shape California’s twenty-first-century identity as the Resistance State. By Dana Goodyear Our journalism relies on your support. If you believe in a media that is fearless in the face of power, please subscribe today. Subscribe now Editor’s Pick The Artificial State Illustration by Mark Pernice As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Jill Lepore reviews recent publications that tackle the question of how new technologies, whose uses are mostly determined by corporations, are creating an artificial state in the United States. She asks: Is there any turning back? Read the story » More from The New Yorker  A Reporter at Large The Shipwreck Detective Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land. By Sam Knight Page-Turner Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season Above my desk, I keep a Post-it note with a quote from the play: “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ” By Lynn Steger Strong American Chronicles The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns. By Charles Bethea Cartoon by Pat Byrnes P.S. Scholars of civil resistance study what happens when mainstream political institutions break down and the people rise up. Four years ago, Andrew Marantz dug into what is sometimes called “people power.” He found that a core tenet of civil-resistance theory is that “citizens, working in concert, have more agency than they are led to believe.” 🪧📢

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