Hey there! It’s Varsha with Sunrise.
Donald Trump’s administration is a horrible combination of corruption, incompetence, and indifference to human suffering. His Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, really exemplifies just how much he doesn’t actually care about solving the problems facing everyday people.
While he pretends otherwise from time to time, he’s a corrupt climate denier who has filled our government with fossil fuel lobbyists who put the profit of their industry over the future that every day people deserve. His statements are so outlandish that it can be hard to tell whether he believes the unhinged things he says or just knows his base will.
If there was ever a moment to step up and power real change, it’s now.
Wright has worked overtime to block climate solutions by shutting down the DOE’s climate working group, sabotaging FEMA’s preparedness efforts, and brushing off wildfire disasters as “hype.”
Instead of supporting clean energy, he’s further locking us into oil, gas, and coal, driving up pollution, raising costs, and dramatically worsening the climate crisis. He started out selling fracking as a “solution” to the climate crisis; now he’s stacking government offices with fossil fuel sycophants while freezing out real scientists. Every storm, every fire, and every toxic spill is proof that he doesn’t care who suffers, as long as polluters keep cashing checks.
When authoritarians weaponize the government to destroy science, young people and workers have to fight back.
We’re demanding a government that protects people, not polluters or profiteers, that values human life instead of fossil fuel greed. Wright and his billionaire backers have all the money in the world, but we have something even better: each other.
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