The Guardian view on the LA fires: Donald Trump's denial and division fuel climate inaction | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : To grasp its scale, the emissions surge would equal the combined annual output of the EU and Japan or the emissions of the world's 140 lowest-emitting countries.
46% : While not much can be expected from Mr Trump, the European "green deal" is too small to plug this year's projected shortfall in private investment, let alone meet EU commitments under the Paris climate agreement.
34% : Events in California reveal how political obstruction is deepening a climate crisis that needs urgent action to prevent it becoming an irreversible disasterThe wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, displaced 180,000 and scorched about 40 square miles - an inferno driven by fierce winds and severe drought in what should be California's wet season.
14% : By contrast the president-elect, Donald Trump, a convicted felon who was criminally sentenced on Friday, used the disaster to spread disinformation and stoke political division.

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