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Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

Under an administration that spent four years shouting "drill, baby, drill," U.S. greenhouse gas emissions dropped to their lowest levels in decades. Global renewable energy adoption is now accelerating at a pace that would have seemed impossible just five years ago, and the man most responsible for that acceleration never planted a single tree or installed any solar panels. This is the story of how one presidency, through sheer force of dysfunction, did more to advance the climate movement than a generation of polite environmental legislation ever managed.

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