Musk-Trump Interview: Donald Trump says climate change will lead to ‘more oceanfront property’

It is no secret that Donald Trump, like many other conservatives, is a climate change denier. During his time in office as President, Trump repeatedly claimed that climate change was a hoax, and in 2019, he infamously pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord to put American interests first.

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Climate change and sea level rise

While Trump continues to live in denial, climate change has already started showing its true colours, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent and intense around the world. Another clear sign of climate change is the rise in sea levels due to global warming and Arctic ice melting, a phenomenon that could displace millions of people living in coastal areas around the world.

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'Will create more oceanfront property'

However, Trump seems unfazed and used the largest platform he has received so far in his US Presidential election campaign trail to mock climate change.

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In his interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Trump repeated his claims and even went on to say that sea-level rises would create more real estate opportunities.

"The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years. You'll have more oceanfront property, right? The biggest threat is not that. The biggest threat is nuclear warming because we have five countries now that have significant nuclear power, and we have to not allow anything to happen with stupid people like Biden," Trump said.

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Elon Musk's changing views on climate change

While Trump's stance as a climate change denier is well known, his interviewer, Musk, was widely seen as an environmental hero. As the CEO of Tesla, the world's largest EV company, Musk has single-handedly changed the automotive industry and pushed it towards greener, more eco-friendly fuels.

In 2021, Musk supported the idea of taxing carbon emissions to force down planet-heating pollution and said that carbon was an “unpriced externality.”

However, in recent years, as his political ideology started becoming more and more conservative, Musk has taken a less aggressive approach to fossil fuels.

In a December 2023 interview, Musk said that "Climate change alarm is exaggerated in the short term" and added that "We should not demonise oil and gas in the medium term."

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