Trump's Regime Is Destroying the Environment
At this point it looks to be on purpose
In their quest to destroy everything good and green, Trump and his sycophants — as one commentor I saw put it, the ‘pack of unsharpened crayons’ — are tearing apart environmental regulations in the U.S.
The attacks range from assaults on the Endangered Species Act to giving the space industry carte blanche to do whatever they like regardless of regulatory guidelines for the environment.
They don’t care about anything but making a profit, and that includes the air we breathe, the land we stand on, and the animals we share the world with.
Don’t get me started on the water. Y’all know I have beef about that.
Ocean Temperatures Are Hitting Record Highs. Again.
Every year we hit a new record for ocean warming.
At this point, beyond just the usual profit motive, it’s starting to feel intentional.
These assholes took one look at dystopian novels like the Hunger Games and the Handmaid’s Tale and mistook them for fucking instruction manuals.
It’s no accident that all of our big, well-known dystopian fictions include extreme environmental destruction alongside the usual political upheavel and oppression. The ‘world that was’ before everything went to hell.
Yes, even the Hunger Games. Panem is the only country mentioned because it’s believed to be the only country left, following nuclear wars and out-of-control Climate Change. Handmaid’s Tale includes it as well, with the ‘unwomen’ being sent to clean up irradiated toxic wastelands that surround Gilead as a punishment.
It’s a consistent pattern. Ecological damage is part of the collapse.
Maybe these guys are just ignorant twatwaffles who believe that climate change is a hoax and that there are no consequences for what they do. Maybe they think their money gives them special powers of protection.
Maybe they think they’ll be dead before consequences touch them.
Who knows?
What I know is that I like being able to breathe. I love seeing green outside my window, having water to drink and good, healthy food to eat. I like hearing the birds singing outside and watching wildlife poking around my garden.
I love squirrels, even when they’re eating my lettuce.
Every regulation is written in blood. Someone did something stupid, bad things happened, and somebody decided to make a rule to stop it from happening again.
Taking away those regulations takes away the guardrails.
It just gets worse from here, unless they’re stopped.
Solidarity wins.