Everyone's Environment on Earth

Flooding water slides in the Phoenix desert? Never heard of that before. Yet, Trump says that climate change doesn’t exist. Then why is unusual things like this happening in our environment? We need to thank former Vice-President Gore and Presidential candidate for all his efforts to at least educate the public as to some of the extreme changes going on in our environment now. Experts used to predict doom and gloom within the next 100 years or so and no one cared simply because they would probably be dead anyway. The reality is that the expert predictions are happening at a much faster rate than originally predicted. We are already experiencing problems now from environmental disasters.

Gore released his sequel to the Oscar winning movie called An Inconvenient Truth. This one is called An Inconvenient Sequel Truth to Power that is also a book written by Al Gore. In 2003 they predicted that something had to be done within the next ten years. Well here we are and not much has been done to really stop environmental pollutants. Trump in his interest to attract large companies to create jobs is trying to lure them back to America by ending environmental restrictions for large polluting industries. With that point of view, things are sure to be catastrophic.

A very large part of the west Antarctic Sheet the size of Delaware has broken off and is floating in the ocean. That will never go back to solid ice. For sure it will result in considerable rises in sea levels as the thing melts. When the sea levels rise we could lose Venice, Florida, the California coast land etc. There are a lot of coastal cities that are in clear danger. New construction in Florida are building properties on stilts about four feet higher than the land in anticipation of rising sea water. In Norfolk, Virginia where the largest Naval Base is in the world is going to have to be moved because of sea level rise. The largest danger is with poor people in places like Bangladesh, Calcutta and Mumbai. Those people are too poor to move away.

China is doing more now for the environment than America now. They are closing most of their coal burning plants in favor of solar and wind power. Trump snubbed the Paris Agreement meanwhile India just announced that within the next ten years ALL of their cars will have to be electrical vehicles. TRUMP HAS NO ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PLANS FOR AMERICA. As for jobs, solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than any other jobs in the economy. The single most growing job is Wind Turbine Technician. Somebody tell Trump that the really good source for new jobs is in the fields of renewable energy and sustainable solutions. We should be investing in those goals America!

Trump recently went to West Virginia promising those poor sick people with black lung that he would be opening the coal mines again. In Russia it is a punishment to be sent to work down in the filthy coal mines, here Trump thinks it is a reward meanwhile most of the mines have converted to automated mining machines anyway; so where are these jobs Trump spoke about? UGH!

We do have an obligation to those miners because they are generations of men who helped build this country but at what price? More deadly sick illnesses? Congress and Trump’s Executive Pen needs to write up new opportunities and training for these men to earn a good wage not in deadly coal for all of us but in renewable energy jobs. If China and India can do it why can’t America be a leader in good things again? The Paris Accord was a massive undertaking to get 190 countries to agree on environmental concerns. It was a giant embarrassment to the democratic world that our President pulled OUT of that so very important agreement. It has been revealed that Trump wants the polar ice caps to melt so that he can ship his branded items at a much cheaper price if the northern shipping lanes would be open in our northern seas. He is a selfish bastard!!!