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| In the first two weeks of his return as president, Trump has, like his first term, to issued orders to open up more American land and waters for fossil fuel extraction and started the process to yank the US from the Paris climate agreement. “We will drill, baby drill,” said Trump, who has promised to cut energy and electricity prices in half within 18 months. But Trump has this time also launched a blitzkrieg against renewable energy, with his department of interior temporarily suspending all clean energy development—but tellingly not oil and gas—on federal land. —The Guardian, February 3, 2025. AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News. |
Author’s note: I was inspired by an old Bill Clinton quip—“What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.”
Philip Kitcher has written too many books about philosophy, a subject which he taught at Columbia for many years. His poems have appeared online in Light, Lighten Up Online, Politics/Letters, Snakeskin, and The Dirigible Balloon; and in print in the Hudson Review.
