After the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, took over the White House, he stated that six “main problems” needed to be solved. An “America First Energy Plan” was among them: to eliminate an “unnecessary and harmful” Climate Action Plan and to apply instead a more “control-alt-delete” strategy.

These dramatic changes have raised many concerns amongst worldwide environmental organisations and climate scientists over the future of the planet. Climate change is an even more serious threat than ever as 2016 has been recorded as the hottest year on record, the UN reports. 

It is “already too late to avoid catastrophic climate change,” says Professor Victor Anderson at the Global Sustainability Institute in Anglian Ruskin University, Cambridge.

“Serious action was required in the 1980s and 1990s but sadly government and other responses were on too small a scale,” he explains. “Clearly Trump's isolationism and emotional instability will make the catastrophes worse.”

And while Trump will eventually cancel the Paris climate agreement and cut science funding, activists and protesters will soon be starting an unprecedented environmental battle to rescue our home.