How Trump Pressures the World Into Burning More Oil and Gas

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00:00Just weeks ago, it looked like a majority of countries would vote to adopt a global carbon tax on shipping.

00:06But then, threats from the U.S., led by Donald Trump, caused the countries to waver and sink the idea.

00:13The world now has a carbon bully, as one expert put it.

00:17Trump has never been a fan of green technologies, but in this second term,

00:21he has made a concerted effort to wreck climate policies.

00:25At home, he has canceled renewable energy projects and made it harder to build new ones.

00:30While urging the oil and gas industry to drill baby drill.

00:34Globally, Trump has not just pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement,

00:38but used his trade war to get other countries to buy American oil and gas.

00:43In big numbers.

00:44$750 billion worth for European Union, $100 billion worth for South Korea, and $15 billion for Indonesia.

00:53But Trump isn't just bullying other nations into buying U.S. fossil fuels.

00:56He is also calling them out for not falling in line with his view.

01:01He's told the U.K. Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, to tear down wind turbines.

01:04And at the United Nations General Assembly, he said,

01:07I'm telling you that if you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail.

01:15All this is happening only weeks before countries converge on Belém in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit.

01:21The world is already not on track to keep catastrophic warming from happening.

01:26And this was before the U.S. became a carbon bully.

01:30But those U.S. actions have happened through coercion and chaos,

01:34which is making some countries trust China more.

01:38From China, they can be assured of sustained supplies of cheap solar panels, batteries, and electric cars.

01:44And despite Trump's threats, the world's appetite for clean energy is soaring.