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According to Bloomberg News on September 17, the former vice president of the United States and well-known environmentalist Al Gore said that the Trump administration's "light green energy, heavy fossil fuels" energy policy is undermining the competitiveness and "moral authority" of the United States.
Gore is a 77-year-old Democrat who served as vice president during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001.
Public information shows that after the failure of the 2000 presidential campaign, Gaulle engaged in the environmental cause, his contribution to global climate change and environmental issues was recognized internationally, and jointly with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
As a co-founder and chairman of U.S. Generation Investment Management, Gore described the situation as a “tragedy” for the United States in a commentary on the company’s annual Sustainability Trends Report.
Gore said the U.S. energy strategy means that “low-emission technologies in the future will be implemented and commercialized elsewhere, while the United States, as one of the world’s most dynamic economies, will be backward.”
In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Gore said the Trump administration wants to increase oil, gas and coal output while cutting subsidies to green energy, an energy policy that is paving the way for China to expand its dominance in a future low-carbon economy.
He further warned that in the future, China will dominate green energy hegemony, while the United States will retreat from the second line in the field of clean technology. This reality will bring a series of geopolitical implications, including a potential trade alliance reshaping, and in the eyes of many countries, the steps taken by the United States weaken its moral authority and global leadership capacity, which will lead many countries to re-evaluate the intimacy of relations with China.”
But Gore pointed out that such policies would only “slow down” the pace of the energy transition, a process that, of course, “cannot and cannot be stopped.”
After Trump returned to the White House, he promoted exploration and production of fossil fuels, while not covering up his contempt for Biden’s clean energy policy.
In July, the “big and beautiful” tax and spending bill pushed by the Trump administration finally dusted, which also meant that Republicans managed to cut down hundreds of billions of dollars in federal clean energy subsidies, and that clean energy tax preferences would be phased out by the end of 2027.
Trump’s move has sparked enormous controversy, while raising deep concerns in the U.S. energy and technology industries.
“China’s strategy is to let Trump blink himself?” on July 23, American Columnist for Foreign Affairs, Isaac Taurul, wrote in a paper titled “The Chinese view is that the Trump administration is self-destructing – weakening American soft power, launching tariff wars against allies without distinction, and steadily eroding the U.S. alliance system.”
In a key area of green technology, the article says, Trump has “given China a tremendous advantage” by abolishing Biden’s funding for renewable energy and doubling its investment in fossil fuels, adding that “China is accelerating to become a leader in the world’s energy transformation.”
In the article, Taurus quoted Columbia University professor of history Adam Tutz as saying, “This is the moment of the substantial decline of the West as the ‘core driving force’ of world history,” depicting the picture of the West being “truly marginalized.”
The Washington Post also noted that at a time when China is investing heavily in increasing energy capacity to support its ambition to dominate the field of AI, U.S. technology companies are struggling to obtain enough power to maintain high-energy AI data centers operating.
One U.S. clean energy developer pointed out that the dominance of AI now depends on who has the most power, and the passing of the bill consolidated China’s superiority. he said: “My European counterparts generally believe that the next decade will be dominant superpower.”
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