Two Trumpian Policies Threaten World |
For this column, we’ll put aside all of President Trump’s character issues, which we have discussed endlessly and focus on two of his policies which endanger life on the planet.
The first could shorten making the Earth uninhabitable while the second could destroy all life instantly.
The first first: The Trump administration has stopped using findings on climate change that threatens the Earth and it is ending the federal government’s authority to control pollution that is burning up the planet.
The administration is removing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases.
You know the pollution that is causing glaciers to melt, seas to rise, raging fires throughout the world, droughts, and so much more. As I write this, populated islands are being drowned by rising seas.
But this, Trump tells us, is all a “hoax.”
“This is about as big as it gets,” President Trump said in announcing the measures. “We are officially terminating the so-called ‘endangerment finding,’ a disastrous Obama-era policy.”
Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental........