Science? It’s fake!
Well, it’s official. Donald Trump, that orange faced, narcissistic, enormously rich (?), tax-evading, climate change denying, joke of a human being is the President of the United States. He is the President despite losing the popular vote by around 3 million votes, despite the CIA’s assurance that Russia did indeed influence the election, despite the fact that Donald Trump actually said (in so many words) that the National Enquirer is a solid investigative news source, and despite that fact that Donald Trump is simply a man who should not be in control of the United States. The world is laughing at us. So it goes, right? But, in a quote that will go down as one of the most profound Presidential quotes in history, losers cannot help the fact that they are born fucked up.
As has been established time and time again, Trump has no interest in what the rest of the world is aiming for: greener energy. Need definitive proof? As of today, all references to climate change have been deleted from the White House website. Vanished, like any respect the US still had from the global community.
Let’s say, just for the sake of saying, that climate change (a totally natural phenomenon) isn’t being accelerated by humans. Let’s say, just for the sake of saying, that every major scientific community on earth is wrong. Even so, have you ever been to China? Have you ever been to China when there’s a smog warning? Do you like pollution? Are you a fan of the smell of exhaust and of dead oceans and rancid air? Is your favorite thing on earth the smell of melting plastic and the sight of coal-fired smokestacks on the horizon? Do you hate vast, green forests and clean, fresh air? Does clean, clear, pure, water make you sick to your stomach? Probably not. The future isn’t in coal and oil and deforestation. The future is in solar, wind, ocean turbines, and alternative energy sources. If you deny it, you’re stupid and stubborn and blind to the most obvious thing on earth, just like the President of the United States. Donald Trump, with all his business acumen (?), is planning some very drastic cuts to the tune of about $10.5 trillion. Most of them are to programs that have scientists in them because everyone knows that scientists and researchers are nothing more than snake-oil slinging evangelists with only profit in mind. Here are a few of them.
Under Obama’s treasonous reign, two State Department programs were focused on climate change mitigation, just like every other major nation (including China. Yes, China believes that humans are accelerating a naturally occurring phenomenon and is doing something about it) on earth. Trump, in all his orange glory, is sharpening the axe for both of them. Already, the White House’s “Clean Power Plan” webpage is gone, replaced with an “America First Energy Plan” that essentially says to prepare for the rape and pillage of everything combustible. With the imminent destruction of these two climate change programs, the probable Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the yee-hawing, Texas tea-sippin’, Putin-loving, former Exxon President, and shadiest-motherfucker on the planet) is getting drunk and throwing parties around a giant tire fire, screaming obscenities into the thick black smoke and shooting a six-gun at the moon.
The Paris Agreement, which as of April, had 175 countries signed on (including China!). That means that researchers from 175 countries have enough proof that we’re helping along the overall warming of the planet to get together and actually do something. Trump, though, hates it. He’s has been saying the United States is pulling out like a high school guy on prom night. There is hope, though–he’s gone from dumping the deal to “keeping an open mind about it.”
It doesn’t stop there, either. Even the Department of Justice is getting the rug pulled out from beneath them. Massive cuts to its Environmental and Natural Resource divisions are scheduled. Those are the divisions that “work to prosecute those that break civil and criminal anti-pollution laws,” according to IFL.com.
But wait! There’s more! Under the watchful eye of Rick Perry (the man who famously thought the head of the DoE meant he was “global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry”), who is likely to become the leader of the Energy Department, the entire Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Office of Fossil Energy are being dismantled. Yes, both of those departments are right in the middle of figuring out how to get America’s stupidly big carbon footprint to be a little smaller.
In short, American citizens, under Trump, the environment is fucked. What the rest of the world is telling him is falling on deaf ears. What is, to the blindest of the blind, so glaringly obvious, is set to be ignored, all in the name of the almighty dollar. And to spout off a well-used cliché, you can’t take that with you when you’re dead.
