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An academic tipped to be President Donald Trump's White House Science Adviser has called for the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Professor William Happer, a Princeton physicist, told The Telegraph in an interview: "I hope he will. Our friends in Europe wanted it so everybody had to sign up but it's a complete waste. ... "It (the Paris agreement) is not going to hurt the environmentalists, it's going to hurt people in Asia and Africa and I think it's profoundly immoral. What people there need is electricity you can afford. Prosperity, what's wrong with that? This...

John P. Holdren, the White House science adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote in a book he co-authored with population control advocates Paul and Anne Ehrlich that “ways must be found to control advertising” and that possible means for doing so would be banning utility companies from promoting the use of energy and prohibiting “references to size, power or sexual potency” in automobile advertising. “Advertising now functions in large part to keep the economy growing by creating demand for a wide variety of often useless, dangerous or environmentally destructive products,” Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.

...Physicist John Holdren, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970, spent his early years working in magnetic fusion energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before apparently being hit by a piece of the sky while at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1996, he has spent his time as an activist professor of environmental policy at both UC, Berkely, and Harvard (partially funded by the Teresa and John Heinz Foundation), advocating for radical action against CO2 emissions and calling for a vast redistribution of global wealth.