Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study -The Guardian
The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds.
Should Trump retake the White House and pass the energy and environmental policies in the controversial Project 2025 document, the US’s planet-heating emissions will “significantly increase” by 2.7bn tonnes above the current trajectory by 2030, an amount comparable to the entire annual emissions of India, according to the report.
The Report energyinnovation.org/…
The main Conclusion Pages 2 to 3
CLIMATE:
• The Continued Climate Leadership scenario reduces U.S. GHG emissions to 3,160 MMT in 2030 – 52 percent below 2005 levels – and net zero in 2050.
• The Project 2025 scenario increases emissions above the trajectory under current policies to 4,920 MMT in 2030 and 4,710 MMT in 2050.
o The difference between these policy scenarios is more than 1,750 MMT, or 27 percentage points against our existing climate commitment, in 2030 and more than 4,700 MMT in 2050
JOBS:
• Continued Climate Leadership scenario adds 2.2 million jobs in 2030, and 2.1 million jobs in 2050. Of those, 1 million are additional direct jobs in both 2030 and 2050
• The Project 2025 scenario leads to 1.7 million lost jobs in 2030 and 260,000 lost jobs in 2050. The direct job losses are 750,000 in 2030 and 70,000 in 2050.
o The difference between these policy scenarios is more than 3.9 million in 2030 and nearly 2.4 million in 2050
HOUSEHOLD ENERGY COSTS:
• The Continued Climate Leadership scenario reduces household energy costs, saving $7.7 billion across all households in 2030 and $110 billion in 2050.
• The Project 2025 scenario increases electricity prices and reliance on petroleum for vehicles, costing an additional $32 billion across all households in 2030 and $24 billion in 2050.
3 Energy Innovation
o The difference between these policy scenarios is $40 billion in 2030 and $134 billion in 2050.
GDP:
• The Continued Climate Leadership scenario sees GDP growth of $450 billion per year by 2030 and $730 billion per year by 2050.
• The Project 2025 scenario decreases GDP $320 billion per year in 2030 and $150 billion per year in 2050
o The difference between these policy scenarios is nearly $770 billion in 2030 and nearly $880 billion in 2050.
HEALTH:
• The Continued Climate Leadership scenario prevents 3,900 early deaths from air pollution by 2030 and 20,600 by 2050
• The Project 2025 scenario causes an additional 2,100 premature deaths by 2030 and 4,800 by 2050.
o The difference between these policy scenarios is nearly 6,000 premature deaths in 2030 and nearly 25,400 in 2050.
From a lefty on DKos, I hope this helps.
I suggest reading the article and study.
