'I'm not going to lose that wealth, I'm not going to lose it on dreams,' he said. 'I want clean air, I want clean water, I want a wealthy country... I'm an environmentalist.'
President Donald Trump has oft-repeated that the U.S. has the cleanest air and water in the world, which is not true. But this week, he added a new line to his repertoire, just moments after saying that he values wealth over the environment, the president told press at the G-7 meeting in France that he was an environmentalist.
Shortly after skipping a meeting about climate change and the devastating fires burning in the Amazon, the president answered a question about global warming by saying,, that the U.S. is the top energy producer in the world and generates tremendous wealth because of it."I'm not going to lose that wealth, I'm not going to lose it on dreams," he said.
In the same breath, the president told his audience that he knows"more about the environment than most people." He continued,"I want clean air, I want clean water, I want a wealthy country... I'm an environmentalist. A lot of people don't understand that." Earlier this month, the president instituted a rule change that would reverse key environmental protections for endangered species and require an economic evaluation to be carried out before any new endangered species is added to list. He has rolled back offshore drilling safety rules, green-lit the Keystone Pipeline, ended 2015's Sage Grouse conservation plans, called for more logging on public lands, and oversaw an Environmental Protection Agency with enforcement at a 30-year low.
Those second thoughts seemingly also apply to the environment. In the past, the president has called climate change a Chinese hoax and asbestos poisoning aUS President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on August 13, 2019.When asked why he skipped the meeting on climate change, the White House said that the president had a pre-planned meetup with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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