“During the coronavirus lockdown in the US, the Trump administration has eased fuel-efficiency standards for new cars, frozen rules for soot air pollution, and leased public property to oil and gas companies. It’s when Trump seems to be doing nothing that he’s at his most dangerous.
It’s like when your kids are upstairs and they’re super quiet for way too long – you know you’re about to wallpaper over some sharpie. The administration has continued to push anti-science policies despite the distraction of coronavirus, which disproportionately affects people of color, and derive from Trump’s longstanding denial of climate change.
Trump’s view that global warming is a hoax is one of the only stances he’s been consistent on. That, and there’s no such thing as a tie that’s too long. One of the administration’s biggest and most audacious deregulatory actions has been to gut the National Environmental Policy Act, a 50-year-old piece of legislation which requires federal agencies consider the environmental impact of infrastructure projects before they are approved, and allows residents to weigh in.
Which demands our attention, especially in an election year. The Trump presidency will be over some day, but the sad reality is that the environmental effects will be permanent, and that becomes everyone’s problem.” —Seth Meyers
http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
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