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DT 20 Editorial FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 TODAY The dead end of history Trump may be a successful businessman, but he is short on ideas, never mind an ideology PAGE 21 Billionaire manages stunning upset The arcane system ensured Trump will have access to the country’s nuclear weapons even if he did not get a majority of the votes PAGE 22 A bad day for Planet Earth REUTERS America’s white-lash elects Trump If the Americans consider Donald Trump worthy of their highest elective office, the world should not quibble. This was a contest between rural and urban America. For once, rural America won PAGE 23 Be heard Write to Dhaka Tribune FR Tower, 8/C Panthapath, Shukrabad, Dhaka-1207 Send us your Op-Ed articles: opinion.dt@dhakatribune.com www.dhakatribune.com Join our Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/ DhakaTribune. The views expressed in Opinion articles are those of the authors alone. They do not purport to be the official view of Dhaka Tribune or its publisher. President Trump is bad news for many reasons, but his stance on climate change has to be the most damaging one. Trump’s first move since being elected president of the United States has been to hire Myron Ebell, a well-known climate change denier, to head his Environmental Protection Agency. This will set America, and the world, back in irrevocable and harmful ways. The move shows that Trump has every intention to bring to fruition his plans for a less environmentally friendly America. Hiring an individual who has called climate change “nothing to worry about” does not bode well for the rest of the world. With COP22 currently in progress in Marrakech, Morocco, it is more important now than ever to ensure that climate change is seen as a real threat, and we do everything in our power to prevent its negative impacts. This is especially important for Bangladesh, one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. Countries such as ours should hold their own at conferences such as the COP22 to ensure that the developed world doesn’t continue to take advantage of our vulnerabilities. Continued investment in renewable energy and cutting down on the use of fossil fuels are crucial if we want to keep global temperature rise to a minimum. For this to happen, the leader of the most powerful country needs to be on board. It is clear that he is not. A president who has repeatedly denied the existence of climate change, going as far as to call it being manufactured by the Chinese government, will mean disaster for all of us. Let us hope, though, that this is not the case. Trump has won, and for better or worse, the world has to deal with it. The world needs to come together in the fight against climate change. We cannot afford to derail this now. A president who has repeatedly denied the existence of climate change, going as far as to call it being manufactured by the Chinese government, will mean disaster for all of us
The dead end of history Opinion 21 The 1990s was the decade of hope to end a century of division. We need them again DT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 political landscape in 2016 has gone viral thanks to a New York real estate tycoon with an ego as grotesque as his bank balance. Trump built the campaign he prefers to call a “movement” around his social media presence and off-the-cuff, rambling speeches. Both suited his swashbuckling style. Twitter, in particular, provided a turret through which he could fire at will, at any time and at anyone. That won’t do now. Trump may be a successful businessman, but he is short on ideas, never mind an ideology. He can still find these, of course, but any resetting of his moral compass in line with his new office may take time the world simply does not have. His inauguration at the end of January 2017 will be followed by bellwether national elections in the Netherlands, France, and Germany. However grand the party held at the Manhattan Hilton on Tuesday night, it could not possibly have matched those thrown by Geert Wilders in The Hague, Marine Le Pen in Paris, or the AfD in Berlin. All three congratulated Trump before he had even congratulated himself. Bitterness, division, acrimony, intolerance Trump may be a successful businessman, but he is short on ideas, never mind an ideology • Phil Humphreys It was “The End of History,” Francis Fukuyama proclaimed in 1992. The Berlin Wall had been brought down and the Iron Curtain forced open. Germany was reunited while the Soviet Union had disintegrated. The American political scientist knew the plates had shifted for good. And who could argue? Capitalism had won. Communism was discredited. The final form of human government had been found and (almost) everyone agreed. In the 10 years that followed, the world came in from the cold. The European community became a union, leading to a single currency and central bank. The World Trade Organisation came into existence and the African Union was conceived. The Oslo Accords gave Israel and Palestine a pathway to coexistence. The Dayton Agreement ended the bitter Bosnian War and the Good Friday Agreement brought peace to Northern Ireland. Apartheid was overthrown in South Africa and a Rainbow Nation was born in its place. Latin American liberal democracies flourished where military dictatorships had ruled. Even Cuba began accepting US aid. It was not all rosy, of course; the Rwandan genocide and Kosovo conflict left deep wounds. But it was overwhelmingly a decade for agreements, accords, unions, and reunifications. And what now? A world turned in on itself REUTERS It seems only bitterness, division, acrimony, and intolerance. A Great Britain under constitutional threat from Brexit forces. Right-wing parties on the rise across a fractured Europe. The Middle East roadmap in tatters. A failed Arab Spring. Syria at war, and IS on the march. Terrorism everywhere. At the same time, China is colonising the developing world via economic stealth, while Russia uses covert military and cyber warfare to intimidate neighbours it can annex, and destabilise opponents it cannot. Even in Bangladesh, houses and temples are being attacked because the people inside follow a different religion. Next door in Myanmar, the Rohingya face a similar strain of persecution. And now we have Trump. Pandemic nationalism They say that if America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Maybe this time, the pathogen passed the other way. The bitterness, division, acrimony, and intolerance infecting much of the global The struggle for 2017 If this rising tide of hate-filled nationalism is to be stopped, then perhaps only the country which has been fought over, ripped open, and pulled from pillar to post more than most can force back the flood. The country with an act of genocide on its collective conscience; the same country which has thrown open its borders and arms to a million Syrian refugees as the rest of Europe has erected fences in 2016. Helmut Kohl’s Germany led the world out of the Cold War and into a decade of relative reconciliation. Angela Merkel and Europe’s largest electorate can again show the way when it goes to the polls next September. If the 1990s saw a spirit of hope borne out of years of struggle and despair, the elections of this year can leave no doubt that the despair has returned, and that the struggle for 2017 has already begun. Maybe now, as happened then, the hope will follow. In the country with the darkest past, the light will surely be seen. • Phil Humphreys is a British journalist and former Bangladesh development worker now living in Berlin, Germany.
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