Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The negative local impacts of these huge data centers. Water, electricity, environment destruction, crowding out other investment and construction, air pollution…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N__8ubegY1c
Critics have exaggerated the electricity and water costs of data centers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6t2PxZxDE
Over much time, the Indus Valley Civilization deforested their area. Without the vegetation, floods got much worse, leading to the decline and fall of their civilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4yoRP9n3JY
Illegal mining in Ghana, sometimes funded by China, is destroying Ghana’s land and Ghana’s rule of law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vug6f_8zwO8
“The 1992 UNFCCC serves as the international structure for efforts by 198 countries to slow the rate of rising climate pollution. It has universal participation. The U.S. was the first industrialized nation to join the treaty following its ratification under former President George H.W. Bush — and it will be the only nation ever to leave it.
The move marks an intensifying effort by Trump to topple climate efforts compared to his first term, when he decided against quitting the treaty.
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Since taking office for a second time a year ago, the Trump administration has tried to undermine U.S. and international climate efforts by shuttering offices throughout the federal government and threatening to unleash tariffs on countries that support carbon taxes on shipping emissions.
He has overseen a wide-ranging campaign to erase regulations governing climate pollution at power plants and in cars, and his administration recruited high-profile climate contrarians to write a report that promoted misinformation about the tenets of climate science.
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The U.S. Senate ratified the U.N. framework 34 years ago, making it a rare environmental pact that was supported unanimously. That could complicate any future president’s efforts to rejoin the treaty.
Some legal experts say the Senate’s consent does not operate in perpetuity after the U.S. leaves a treaty. Others argue that if a president can unilaterally leave a treaty, a future president could rejoin it without a new vote.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/rubio-urges-trump-to-leave-unfccc-00487331
“Trump said the administration was officially terminating Biden’s “ridiculous” CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) rules, claiming car prices would come down in response to today’s action. Automakers are now required to meet an average of 34.5 mpg across their model fleet by 2031, a dramatic drop from the average of 50.4 mpg across 2031 that the Biden administration had proposed.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-rolls-back-biden-era-fuel-economy-standards-paving-way-for-more-gas-powered-cars-212656060.html
As the U.S. backs away from clean energy and limiting global warming on the president’s false belief that climate change is a hoax, China is stepping in as a leader globally, leading on the issue and selling its technologies and products to countries around the world. Despite its leadership and its massive renewable production, it still uses a lot of dirty coal. China’s clean energy partnerships around the world give it influence. The Trump-led U.S. is banking on past fuels and energy, while China is advancing into the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ6UmECe1Q
“Trump has championed coal, oil and gas and sought to squash clean energy efforts in the U.S. and abroad. He has removed the U.S. from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, for the second time, and has used the threat of tariffs to try to bolster sales of American fossil fuels.
The speeches from a handful of leaders displayed, at times, the anger and dismay that countries feel about the U.S. breaking its promises and attempting to undermine the global effort to tackle global warming.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/leaders-admonish-trump-cop30-absence-00640036
The US led the world to reach a huge climate deal. Then, it switched sides.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/the-us-led-the-world-to-reach-a-huge-climate-deal-then-it-switched-sides-pol-00636033
“The planned, carefully controlled burns that can prevent megafires—known as prescribed fires—rarely qualify. They are, by definition, intentional and therefore generally fail to meet the Clean Air Act’s requirements for exceptional events. The result is a perverse incentive: The uncontrolled wildfire that blackens the skies is given a regulatory free pass, while the low-intensity prescribed fire that could have reduced the risk of that disaster faces red tape and potential penalties.
As a result, states become reluctant to issue burn permits, and fire practitioners scale back projects rather than risk running afoul of federal standards.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/22/the-clean-air-act-is-making-our-air-dirtier/