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The Climate Can’t Afford Another Trump Presidency

His approach to the environment: ignore it.
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Editor’s Note: This article is part of “If Trump Wins,” a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.

Saturday before Donald Trump took office, in January 2017, I watched the unfold in a library at the University of Pennsylvania. Volunteer archivists, librarians, and computer scientists were trawling government websites, looking for data sets about climate change to duplicate for safekeeping. Groups like this . Flowcharts on whiteboards laid out this particular room’s priorities: copy

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