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The climate can’t afford another Trump presidency. His approach to the environment: ignore it (www.theatlantic.com)
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On the last Saturday before Donald Trump took office, in January 2017, I watched the controlled chaos of a hackathon unfold in a library at the University of Pennsylvania. Volunteer archivists, librarians, and computer scientists were trawling government websites, looking for data sets about climate change to duplicate for safekeeping. Groups like this were meeting across the country. Flowcharts on whiteboards laid out this particular room’s priorities: copy decades of ice-core statistics from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; scrape the Environmental Protection Agency’s entire library of local air-monitoring results from the previous four years; find a way to preserve a zoomable map of the factories and power plants emitting the most greenhouse gases.

The fear was that the incoming administration would pull information like this from public view—and within a week, it did. By noon on Inauguration Day, the Trump administration had scrubbed mentions of climate change from the White House website. By May, officials had taken down the EPA’s page laying out climate science for the general public, as well as 108 pages associated with the Clean Power Plan, the landmark Obama policy meant to curb emissions from power plants—months before the Trump administration tried to repeal the policy altogether.

The administration’s goal was to bury the issue of climate change. Nothing was done to address it; the very mention of it was knocked from the national agenda—and, by extension, the international agenda. If Trump returns to office, he will surely double down on this strategy.

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I generally don’t subscribe to sensationalism. Your droning on about your one little issue isn’t enough to move the needle when doing so sacrificing Ed the democracy of the country I live in and that contains all of my loved ones.

So yeah. I’m okay with it. Entirely okay with it. Because its Also mostly bullshit.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hahahaha, good luck with that.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Appreciate that. Good luck to you on finishing grade school.