“Otherwise we head for a disaster”
Mihambo criticizes the climate policy of US President Trump
26.08.2025 – 8:01 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Long jump star Malaika Mihambo is interested in environmental policy. The latest developments in the USA are worried.
Long jump Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo has critically commented on the climate policy of the US government under President Donald Trump. The background is plans to terminate the regulation of greenhouse gases.
In conversation with the TV station Sport1, the student of environmental sciences said: “Of course, this is very questionable because the reality is unnecessary if you make such decisions.” From the perspective of the German world-class athlete, this is alarming. She hopes for a U -turn. “Otherwise we are heading for a catastrophe,” Mihambo continued.
Resource consumption worldwide is currently around 1.7 earths, the long jump star said. “That means we can use 70 percent more than the earth a year.” If the consumption were as high everywhere as in Germany, according to Mihambo, around three earths are even needed. “But we don’t have that many earths.”
Under the Republican Trump, the US environmental authority EPA wants to remove a central scientific assessment of the dangers of greenhouse gases. The necessary steps will be taken to formally withdraw the so -called risk determination, the head of the environmental authority, Lee Zeldin, had explained in the conservative podcast “Ruthless”.
The risk determination is about a scientific determination of the environmental authority from the term of office of Trump’s democratic predecessor Barack Obama, which is of central importance for the measures of the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and to combat climate change.
According to a report on the state of the global climate of the world weather organization, the year 2024 was the warmest year ever and the first one that was an average of over 1.5 degrees worldwide than in pre -industrial means.