Harrison Ford slammed the Trump administration and their lack of policies to combat climate change in a new interview.
Speaking to the Guardian, Ford — a vocal critic of Donald Trump — expressed concern about the future of the environment, especially in the aftermath of the Los Angeles area wildfires that impacted thousands of Californians, including himself.
“[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me,” Ford said. “The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”
As a historic hurricane rages near Jamaica — a Category 5 storm powered, experts believe, by rising water temperatures due to global warming — Ford also pointed to the almost annual wildfires plaguing the country as more evidence of Trump’s hurtful policies or lack thereof, which includes pulling out of the Paris climate deal and imploring oil companies to continue drilling.
“I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” Ford, who had to evacuate from his California home amid the wildfires, told the Guardian. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”
The actor, who received a conservation leadership award at a ceremony at Chicago’s Field Museum on Wednesday, also warned, “We are teetering on the edge. Indigenous people are the stewards of much of the remaining standing forests and contain the hope that these precious places can be preserved. The science has proved the value in their preservation but that does not keep them from encroachment, and the protection they are granted is tenuous in some of the countries these assets exist in.”
From Rolling Stone US
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