Harrison Ford Blasts Donald Trump Over Climate Change Remarks

Harrison Ford spoke out strongly against President Donald Trump during an interview with The Guardian this week, criticizing his approach to climate change.

The actor, best known for his roles in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, made the comments ahead of receiving a conservation leadership award at Chicago’s Field Museum.

Ford condemned Trump for what he described as a lack of real climate policies. “[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the s*** out of me,” Ford said. He added that Trump’s actions and attitude toward the environment were both dangerous and deliberate.

“The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.” He said.

Trump has publicly called climate change a hoax, including during a recent United Nations speech where he referred to it as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He also pushed for traditional energy sources and stronger borders in that speech.

According to The Guardian, Trump’s administration took steps to roll back climate protections, cut clean energy projects, and support increased oil and gas drilling. Hundreds of scientists were fired, and references to climate change and emissions were restricted within government communications.

Ford said he has been warning about climate change for decades. “I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years. Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”

Despite his criticism of Trump, Ford remained optimistic about the future. “I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies. But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem, we can fix it most times.”

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