Defending Creation with Trump as President

[Regiomontanus]

I just received this email from a great organization I have been involved with for decades.

"Dear xx

Through the anger and grief all of us at NRDC are feeling, we're focused on the future — and defending our environment from Trump. We are ready to fight back.

Let me be clear: For the next four years, Trump will bring an unrelenting assault on our planet. He has vowed to do even more damage in his second term than his first. So we need your sustained support to fight back in and out of court.

<edited out the appeal for $>

Trump and his allies have made their intentions crystal clear in the Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project:

Dismantle environmental regulations. Drill on our public lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gut the Environmental Protection Agency. Slash clean energy programs. Greenlight polluters' demands.

Trump, backed by the Big Oil billionaires who bankrolled his campaign and received a host of campaign promises in return, is about to target everything from climate science to the Arctic to the air we breathe and the water we drink."

The above is not just fundraising talk. Trump's record on environmental conservation is very clear (and depressing).

I can't help but wonder what difference there would have been in the election if the DNC spent a dollar or two on educating the public on this kind of danger, which is now imminent? Border, inflation, etc., etc., but what about the biosphere? Oh well, who needs that!

 

[Secret Chief]

I just received this email from a great organization I have ben involved with for decades.

"Dear xx

Through the anger and grief all of us at NRDC are feeling, we're focused on the future — and defending our environment from Trump. We are ready to fight back.

Let me be clear: For the next four years, Trump will bring an unrelenting assault on our planet. He has vowed to do even more damage in his second term than his first. So we need your sustained support to fight back in and out of court.

<edited out the appeal for $>

Trump and his allies have made their intentions crystal clear in the Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project:

Dismantle environmental regulations. Drill on our public lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gut the Environmental Protection Agency. Slash clean energy programs. Greenlight polluters' demands.

Trump, backed by the Big Oil billionaires who bankrolled his campaign and received a host of campaign promises in return, is about to target everything from climate science to the Arctic to the air we breathe and the water we drink."

The above is not just fundraising talk. Trump's record on environmental conservation is very clear (and depressing).

I can't help but wonder what difference there would have been in the election if the DNC spent a dollar or two on educating the public on this kind of danger, which is now imminent? Border, inflation, etc., etc., but what about the biosphere? Oh well, who needs that!

You seem to be suggesting that we can't treat the planet as both an endless resource and a giant toilet. Trump is but a symptom of the greater problem - which is that 70+ million people voted for him. Without Trump they would simply have voted for some other... er... similar person.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I just received this email from a great organization I have ben involved with for decades.

"Dear xx

Through the anger and grief all of us at NRDC are feeling, we're focused on the future — and defending our environment from Trump. We are ready to fight back.

Let me be clear: For the next four years, Trump will bring an unrelenting assault on our planet. He has vowed to do even more damage in his second term than his first. So we need your sustained support to fight back in and out of court.

<edited out the appeal for $>

Trump and his allies have made their intentions crystal clear in the Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project:

Dismantle environmental regulations. Drill on our public lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gut the Environmental Protection Agency. Slash clean energy programs. Greenlight polluters' demands.

Trump, backed by the Big Oil billionaires who bankrolled his campaign and received a host of campaign promises in return, is about to target everything from climate science to the Arctic to the air we breathe and the water we drink."

The above is not just fundraising talk. Trump's record on environmental conservation is very clear (and depressing).

I can't help but wonder what difference there would have been in the election if the DNC spent a dollar or two on educating the public on this kind of danger, which is now imminent? Border, inflation, etc., etc., but what about the biosphere? Oh well, who needs that!

I'm just happy people see through all the hysterics with the evidence of not only the electorial vote but the popular vote as well and I'm sure issues like the environment will still be looked after. I'm not too impressed with Environmental Conservation as it stands especially with Peanut's and Fred's execution by Environmental Conversation Department here in the People's Republic of New York that has devastated millions of people including Cuomo that sends me a very different vibe here.

 

[Regiomontanus]

I'm just happy people see through all the hysterics with the evidence of not only the electorial vote but the popular vote as well and I'm sure issues like the environment will still be looked after. I'm not too impressed with Environmental Conservation as it stands especially with Peanut's and Fred's execution by Environmental Conversation Department here in the People's Republic of New York that has devastated millions of people including Cuomo that sends me a very different vibe here.

The actions of the DEC in regard to Peanut is inexcusable. But I am talking about much bigger issues here, such as specie extinction, climate change, the acidification of the oceans, etc., etc.

 

[Quintessence]

The above is not just fundraising talk. [redacted]'s record on environmental conservation is very clear (and depressing).

I mean, there is a correlation between someone who is okay with (and has been found guilty of) raping women and someone who is okay of raping mother earth. They're abusers with abusive mentalities.

You seem to be suggesting that we can't treat the planet as both an endless resource and a giant toilet. [redacted] is but a symptom of the greater problem - which is that 70+ million people voted for him. Without [redacted] they would simply have voted for some other... er... similar person.

Unfortunately true.

While there is some remarkable momentum behind doing the right thing, we are already locked in to significant shifts in ecological and climatological systems. Ironically, border security - which at present genuinely is a nonissue - will become a severe issue as these impacts grow worse. Environmental changes are the number one cause of all species migrations, including humans. If the GoP was actually serious about border issues it wouldn't be ignoring the fact that it's an environmental issue. Or killing border security bills to play games for that matter.

When it's all said and done, none of this will matter. Humans will extinct themselves and life will move on.

 

[Secret Chief]

Humans will extinct themselves and life will move on.

I hope we don't take too many species with us; but the reality is that the rate of the anthropocene extinction seems only to be accelerating.

 

[Quintessence]

I hope we don't take too many species with us; but the reality is that the rate of the anthropocene extinction seems only to be accelerating.

I haven't kept up on it as much since I'm no longer an active research scientist in that field, but the data from a decade ago was pretty grim and depressing. On the upshot, if one remembers to take a geologic view of time all things run in cycles. It's just unforgivably tragic (to my mind) for a so-called "rational" animal to be responsible for this.

 

[Secret Chief]

so-called

Exactly.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I can't help but wonder what difference there would have been in the election if the DNC spent a dollar or two on educating the public on this kind of danger, ...

Effectively none.

 

[Regiomontanus]

Efectively none.

Mayhap that would have been the case. Not sure.