Actor condemns Trump’s climate denial, calling his environmental rollbacks dangerous and globally destructive.
Harrison Ford is once again using his platform to sound the alarm on the climate crisis — and this time, he’s directing his sharpest criticism at Donald Trump.
In a forceful new interview with The Guardian, published ahead of Ford receiving a conservation leadership award at Chicago’s Field Museum, the Indiana Jones and Star Wars icon condemned Trump for dismantling key environmental protections and spreading misinformation about climate science.
Ford said Trump’s attitude toward climate change “scares the s— out of me,” arguing that the president governs not with policies but with impulsive “whims.” The actor accused Trump of “ignorance, hubris, lies, [and] perfidy,” and went so far as to call him “the greatest criminal in history” for knowingly undermining efforts to protect the planet.
According to Ford, Trump “knows better” but chooses to align with an entrenched status quo that profits from environmental destruction.
The critique comes just weeks after Trump addressed the United Nations and labeled climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He urged world leaders to abandon “the green scam” and instead prioritize fossil fuels and strict border policies.
His comments echoed a broader pattern highlighted by The Guardian, which reported that Trump has reversed climate and clean-air rules, blocked clean energy initiatives, encouraged oil and gas companies to “drill, baby, drill,” dismissed hundreds of government scientists, deleted climate research, and banned federal agencies from even using terms like “climate change” and “emissions.”
Ford, who has been advocating for environmental action for more than 30 years, said the current surge in climate-related disasters was predictable. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true,” he warned, questioning why these realities haven’t been enough to change public behavior.
He blamed the resistance to change on powerful interests fighting to preserve the status quo.
Despite his blistering criticism, Ford ended the interview on a hopeful note. He believes global warming can still be slowed if governments and citizens commit to major shifts in technology, policy, and daily habits.
“We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive,” he said. “If we concentrate on a problem, we can fix it most times.”
For more on Ford’s award and remarks, visit The Guardian.
