Vegetarian Paul McCartney calls Trump’s climate change denial ‘madness’

SIR PAUL McCartney, a longtime vegetarian, produced a video with his daughters Mary and Stella advocating for Meatfree Mondays. It’s part of their campaign to raise awareness about the negative impact animal agriculture has on the environment — a crusade they say is being undermined by a certain high-profi le climatechange skeptic.

In a recent interview with BBC’s Radio 1 Newsbeat the former Beatle said there’s always been resistance to those working to stop global warming, but “particularly when you’ve got someone like Trump who says that it is just a hoax.”

President Donald Trump vowed to remove the US from the Paris Agreement in June, named climate- change skeptics to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA, and tweeted in 2012 that “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing noncompetitive.”

“A lot of people like myself think that’s just madness,” McCartney said of Trump’s denial. “So it’s maybe a good time now to try and focus people’s attention and say ‘Look, forget about him, we can do something.’”

The singer/songwriter hasn’t hid distaste for Trump in the past. “He’s unleashed a kind of violent prejudice that is sometimes latent among people,” he told The Daily Telegraph in July. “He’s unleashed the ugly side of America.” — WPBloomberg