Overview
- Ford said Trump’s approach to the climate crisis "scares the shit out of me" and called him "among the worst criminals in history" with "whims" instead of policies.
- A longtime environmental advocate, Ford spoke shortly before receiving a conservation leadership award from the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation at Chicago’s Field Museum.
- Coverage links Trump’s 2025 actions to a broader rollback: re‑withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, pausing clean‑energy projects, pressing oil and gas to "drill, baby, drill," firing or sidelining scientists, and curbing climate terminology in government.
- Ford tied his critique to lived and recent events, citing his evacuation during Los Angeles wildfires and a Category 5 hurricane near Jamaica that scientists say was likely intensified by warming.
- Trump told the United Nations last month that climate change is "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world," and a White House spokesperson dismissed Ford’s remarks as "climate hysteria" even as Ford expressed confidence that mitigation is still achievable.