Shitstain & GOP Not Just Twiddling Their Thumbs; They Know Climate Will Kill Us And Don't Care
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A now-forgotten 2018 Washington Post story momentarily spotlighted the tectonic change of attitude. The newspaper reported that the Trump administration predicted a seven-degree rise in global temperatures under our current policies. Considering the mayhem now unfolding with one degree of warming, that prediction is a death sentence – but this wasn’t a case of Trump merely fessing up to a calamity. Instead, the administration cited that prediction as a fixed eventuality and thus as a rationale to kill fuel-efficiency standards that might help prevent that disastrous outcome.
“The amazing thing they’re saying is human activities are going to lead to this rise of carbon dioxide that is disastrous for the environment and society. And then they’re saying they’re not going to do anything about it,” one scientist told the Post.
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Amid the summer fire season, Trump’s labor department is helping oil and gas companies make it harder for pension managers, workers and retirees to move their savings out of fossil fuel investments. In the courts, judges are helping the Trump administration block climate cases before they are even fully litigated, they are helping the fossil fuel industry steamroll pipeline opponents, and they have shut down the case aiming to hold oil companies responsible for misleading the public about the dangers of carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, Republicans in state legislatures have been passing laws criminalizing climate protests. Though Trump promised to let local communities regulate fossil fuel development, his party has been doing the opposite – GOP lawmakers have pushed preemption laws to try to block cities and towns from restricting that development.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/19/america-deadly-wildfires-trump-inferno
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