Trump's war on the environment

[David Horn]

(10-13-2017, 10:23 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: 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.

Both of the two major parties are on life support.  The rising wing of the GOP is laser focused on cloud cuckooland, while the rising wing of the Democrats is parsing the population into ever smaller bites.  The establishment of both parties is solidly bought and completely owned by powerful interests, so chaos is the most likely result, at least in the short term.

Kinser79 Wrote: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).

I agree that the social costs of pollution are higher today, but the existence of easily accessible social media tends to blunt the effectiveness of any movement to oppose the powerful interests that benefit from doing more of the same.

Kinser79 Wrote:Chinese air pollution isn't the result from their power plants, or their factories.  Their lagging development in kitchen appliances is the main culprit.

Yeah, I'm sure that's what's at stake here.