Donald Trump makes Energy Minister the negative of the climate crisis, Chris Wright

The elected president announced on Saturday (16/11/24) that he chose Chris Wright, chief executive of industry and gas companies and a staunch defender of fossil fuel use, for the post of Minister of Energy. Wright is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based oil company. It is expected to support Donald Trump’s plan to maximize production and natural gas and to seek ways to boost electricity production, the demand for which has first been increasing for decades. He is also likely to share Trump’s opposition to global cooperation to combat climate change. Wright has described climate change activists as dangerologists and has likened Democrats’ efforts to combat global warming to Soviet-style communism. “There is no climate crisis, nor are we in the middle of an energy transition,” Wright said in a video published on his profile on LinkedIn last year. He has no political experience, he has extensively authored about the need for more fossil fuel production to get people out of poverty.