Trump's climate policies put China in charge of our future

[spanone]

(CNN)

In a rational world, people would take climate change more and more seriously as real-world evidence for its damaging effects mount.

The dying of the Great Barrier Reef; the crippling, ongoing drought in East Africa; the thawing of Arctic ice. All of these should make us more determined to tackle the problem at the source by reducing our worldwide carbon emissions.

But we don't live in a rational world. Tracking the rapid rise in global temperatures has been an equally fast increase in the politically motivated denial of the basic science of climate change.

This process of anti-science posturing has now reached its nadir in the determined effort by the Trump administration to unravel former President Barack Obama's efforts to tackle global warming.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/28/opinions/trump-is-leaving-climate-change-all-to-china-opinion/index.html

[onecaliberal]

1. We are completely and totally fucked.

[spanone]

2. greed over existence.....sounds about right.

[spanone]

3. ...

The Trump administration's war on science is fast becoming its most destructive attribute. We will never be able to tackle climate change if we continue to live in a post-truth age, where factual accuracy plays second fiddle to political ideology.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists and science supporters are expected to take to the streets April 22 in a worldwide March for Science. The fact that this mobilization is needed at all speaks volumes about our terrifying global predicament.

[Achilleaze]

6. Global Earth Day - March for Science this year will be yuuge!

You can check out the DC and lots of planned local marches at this link:
https://www.marchforscience.com

[spanone]

7. thanks...link not working!

[Achilleaze]

8. OK fixed it

[spanone]

9. 👍🏼

[greenman3610]

4. like health care, undoing enviro protection is complicated

I hate what they're doing, but don't imagine they can undo 50 years of case law, regulation, and precedent in one swoop.
Plus, way unpopular.

[spanone]

5. EPA Chief scott pruitt denies carbon is a pollutant

a man who doesn't know shit about science is in charge of department that relies on science.

fuck trump for putting this asshole in charge of EPA

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/03/11/epa-head-denies-co2-causes-climate-change-mann-intv.cnn