'He scares me': Harrison Ford attacks Trump over 'criminal' climate policies

Harrison Ford has said Donald Trump's assault on measures to address the climate crisis "scares the shit out of me" and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.

- Oliver Milman

In a blistering attack on the president, Ford said Trump "doesn't have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he's an instrument of the status quo and he's making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket."

The Star Wars and Indiana Jones actor, who is 83, added: "It's unbelievable. I don't know of a greater criminal in history."

In his second term as president, Trump has set about dismantling climate and clean air protections, halted clean energy projects, urged oil and gas companies to "drill, baby, drill" for the fossil fuels that are overheating the planet, fired hundreds of scientists while deleting their work, and banned mentions of "climate change" and "emissions" within government.

Trump, who has again withdrawn the US from the Paris climate deal, has also targeted other countries' climate policies, urging the UK to tear down its "ugly" wind turbines in favour of more oil drilling and demanding that the EU roll back its climate rules and buy more American oil and gas.