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   Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump's election will accelerate global warming   
   and humanity's 'race to disaster'   
      
   The US Republican Party is now 'the most dangerous organisation in   
   world history', US academic says   
      
       Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent   
       Tuesday 15 November 2016 13:03 BST   
      
   The renowned American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has warned   
   the US Republican party is now “the most dangerous organisation in   
   world history” because of the denial of climate change by   
   President-elect Donald Trump and other leading figures.   
      
   Following the US elections, Professor Chomsky said it appeared humans   
   planned to answer what he called “the most important question in their   
   history … by accelerating the race to disaster”.   
      
   Mr Trump has already appointed a prominent climate change denier to   
   run his transition team covering the Environmental Protection Agency   
   (EPA), and other advisers include people with close links to the   
   fossil fuel industry.   
      
   He has also pledged to scrap the United States’ ratification of the   
   Paris Agreement on climate change, which President Barack Obama has   
   hailed as “the moment that we finally decided to save our planet”.   
      
   Leading climate scientists have expressed dismay and concern about Mr   
   Trump’s election, suggesting it could be an “unmitigated disaster for   
   the planet”.   
      
   Speaking to the Truthout website, Professor Chomsky pointed to a   
   report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which said the   
   past five years had been the hottest on record and reported rising sea   
   levels, unexpectedly rapid melting of ice and other effects of climate   
   change.   
      
   The election on 8 November had given the Republicans total control of   
   the US government and this meant they had now become "the most   
   dangerous organisation in world history”, he said.   
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   “The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The   
   facts suggest otherwise. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly   
   as possible to destruction of organised human life. There is no   
   historical precedent for such a stand,” Professor Chomsky said.   
      
   “It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing   
   the most important question in their history — whether organised human   
   life will survive in anything like the form we know — and are   
   answering it by accelerating the race to disaster.”   
      
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