Trump's war on the environment

[Kinser79]

(10-13-2017, 10:57 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(10-13-2017, 09:22 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(07-24-2017, 11:12 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(07-24-2017, 01:17 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: CBS News reported today that whales have returned to New York harbor to feed on fish that didn't used to survive in the polluted waters there until the EPA required a clean-up. Now Trump has shut down the EPA. How long will the fish and whales survive now? Those who knock and block the EPA have no respect for life.

Trump is certainly mismanaging the EPA (mismanagement being his "forte") but he has not shut it down.

The mismanagement being the fact it hasn't been shut down.  But that is a matter of time.

The next Democratic President will revive it. Donald Trump is a sick joke, a reactionary who wants a return to the economic norms of the 1920s despite technologies and social conditions that make such absurd. The idea that smokestacks belching acrid smoke were signs of prosperity fits the illusions of the early stage of industrialization.

You're assuming that the Dim-o-cratic party as it currently exists will survive.  There is no reason to have this expectation.  If anything their entire party is breaking down, and in 2024 Trump won't be on the ballot anyway.  So unity in opposition to him is simply not good enough.

Furthermore, unlike previous eras the social costs of pollution are far higher than in the 19th century, not to mention that most people walk around on the street with a device in their pocket that allows them to communicate instantly with nearly everyone else on the planet.  (I have to exclude the Norks and the Amish for obvious reasons).

Chinese air pollution isn't the result from their power plants, or their factories.  Their lagging development in kitchen appliances is the main culprit.