PURE EVIL: “The Trump administration is diligently weakening US environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing its rollback as the November election approaches.”-@guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
2/ During Covid-19 lockdown, US federal agencies eased fuel-efficiency standards for new cars; frozen rules for soot air pollution; proposed to drop review requirements for liquefied natural gas terminals; continued to lease public property to oil and gas companies.”-@guardian
3/ “...sought to speed up permitting for offshore fish farms; and advanced a proposal on mercury pollution from power plants that could make it easier for the government to conclude regulations are too costly to justify their benefits.”-@guardian
4/ Stephen Hawking warned us.
5/ How pandemics are linked to environmental destruction.
6/ We have a moral mandate to get rid of this GOP.
7/ We don’t have another planet.
8/ Same misanthropic billionaires who installed Trump fund denialism.
9/ “Trump officials attempting to create a coronavirus relief program for oil and gas corporations, a new move in his campaign to back the industry and stymie global climate action. The president* has sown distrust of climate science and vowed to exit Paris agreement.”-@guardian
10/ “Trump’s presidency* has forced a pendulum swing back from the environmental awakening of the 1960s and 70s, when there was bipartisan support for conservation. Protecting the environment—and climate—is an issue that has become embroiled in political ideology.”-@guardian
11/ “Covid has been a dry run for the climate crisis. We’ve seen the populations that Covid affects because it attacks the respiratory system. We can’t continue with bad air in America.”-@guardian
12/ So humans under this administration* join whales, polar bears and butterflies on the endangered species list.
