Big Take: A Warming Planet vs. Trump

Zero: The Climate Race

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Technology, Business, Science

4.7 • 219 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Since taking office in January, President Trump has set in motion a series of sweeping rollbacks on US climate policy. This comes at a time when governments around the world have lagged behind their stated environmental goals.

In this episode of the Big Take, host Sarah Holder is joined by Akshat Rathi, host of the Zero podcast, to talk through the Trump administration’s key climate actions, how they could impact investment in green energy, and what it all means for the global fight to stop the warming of the planet.

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0:30.0	Hi, it's Akshath.
0:31.8	This week, I joined the Big Take podcast to talk about the global consequences of President
0:36.6	Donald Trump's rollback on climate.
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0:55.9	Since taking office in January, President Trump has set in motion a series of sweeping rollbacks on U.S. climate policy.
1:03.6	The president slashing funding to combat climate change.
1:06.7	President Trump on social media is again calling for FEMA to be shut down.
1:10.8	The latest firings hitting NOAA, the nation's top weather and climate agency, hundreds let go.
1:16.7	And on Tuesday, the few times Trump mentioned climate policy in an address to Congress, he didn't hold back.
1:22.9	I terminated the ridiculous green news scam.
1:26.8	I withdrew from the unfair Paris climate accord,
1:30.4	which was costing us trillions of dollars,
1:34.1	that other countries were not paying.
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