While glaciers are shedding melting ice into our global seas, California was ablaze, powerful hurricanes virtually destroyed Puerto Rico, and the world's forests have apparently been reduced by ten percent, Scott Pruitt's EPA is ostracizing scientists and environmentalists and recruiting industrialists who have no qualifications to usher in a new era of green technology. The Trump Administration is also looking to shrink public lands so mining can proceed. But look on the bright side, China is emerging as the new global leader in green energy by partly closing 40 % of its industrial plants that generate the most pollution. I hope those trade name licenses the Trumps received are a good enough trade off for making our country less environmentally safe and ceding our green energy leadership to countries like China and Germany. This is just another reason Progressives and Democrats need to band together and work to come back to power.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/10/27/16552766/epa-science-advisory-board-scientific-counselors
https://futurism.com/in-just-25-years-we-have-destroyed-10-of-the-earths-wilderness/
https://futurism.com/china-shut-40-factories-stand-pollution/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/climate/antarctica-glaciers-melt.html?_r=0
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-monument/trump-to-shrink-utah-national-monuments-in-bid-to-boost-drilling-mining-idUSKBN1CW2PY
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