Trump’s Tribe Attacks Earth

By FRANK LINGO

Among the many monstrous moves made by F***ing Felon 47 on his first day back in office are aggressively anti-ecological executive orders.

We shouldn’t let these terracidal tactics be tolerated, even if the news organizations don’t give them sufficient coverage.

Sure, the media have heaps of horrifying happenings to present to their public. There are the pardons of insurrectionists who attacked the United States Congress at the incitement of Felon. There’s the retribution for those Justice Department officials who did their duty by prosecuting Felon’s fanatic followers. There’s the deportation desires of his devotees on any immigrants without white skin.

There’s the restrictions of reproductive rights on any people without a penis.

But none of those issues are more important than protecting the planet from the worsening ways of climate chaos. If we had enlightened self-interest, we’d know this isn’t about benevolence for the birds and bunnies, but for survival of our own fragile species.

A Jan. 21 New York Times article outlined some devastating decisions by dictator Donald. One includes eliminating programs that protect communities from the pollution of environmental racism, another unlocks the authority for him to suspend environmental regulations on the pretext of a phony energy emergency.

Felon 47 announced the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris Accords, a pact almost all the world’s nations joined to fight the climate crisis. It’ll take a year for our reneging to take effect but you can bet our country will do nothing to help in the meantime.

Then the Oaf of Office signed a sweeping order to stop new offshore wind projects and potentially terminate existing wind leases, as well.

Additionally, our fatuous fathead signed a dangerous directive that could deliver a desired decree for deniers. It calls for the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator to reconsider the “legality and continuing applicability” of the endangerment finding.

This concept stems from a 2007 Supreme Court decision which found the EPA can regulate greenhouse gas emissions because they qualify as air pollutants. Then two years later the EPA, under President Obama, concluded that six gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, are a danger to human health and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. So now Felon 47’s friends at the fiercely anti-regulatory Heritage Foundation want to challenge the Court’s ruling with a goal to nullify the EPA’s enforcement powers.

Of course, the fossil fool firms would love to overturn the regulations that protect our atmosphere. And demon Don, who claims the climate crisis is a hoax, plans on elevating extraction and sabotaging sustainability.

Not sure about you, but I have full faith in the current court’s majority of Supremacists to do the right thing – the far-right thing. As we’ve seen many times in the last few years — whether it’s about abortion, voting rights, or providing a president with impunity – their far-right thing is quite far-wrong. That would impose the minority’s will on the majority and a climate catastrophe on the Earth.

Frank Lingo, based in Lawrence, Kansas, is a former columnist for the Kansas City Star and author of the novel “Earth Vote.” Email: lingofrank@gmail.com. See his website: Greenbeat.world

From The Progressive Populist, February 15, 2025

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