ABSTRACT
The Donald Trump administration and Republican politicians are pushing for rollbacks on environmental protections. This chapter provides a brief overview of the status of climate change. Climate change, despite the claims of those who deny it, is one of the leading threats to our environment, and yet the banality of neoliberalism, politics and our everyday conveniences usurp addressing the harms already done and those surely to occur. The chapter discusses the United States administration and the Republican political party, as to the political environment is at best a sorry spectacle, even though the United States remains a world superpower. It focuses on examples from other countries’ symbolic, ignored or disavowed responses to climate change regardless of the primary focus on the United States. Touted as energy-efficient alternative to traditional bulbs—thus addressing consumption of electricity—they are contributing to the harmful impact on humans indirectly linked to climate change responses.
