The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock was moving 30 seconds closer to the end of humanity in an "unpresidented" act; never before has the Clock been moved as a result of a single person, but Donald Trump's alarming remarks on nuclear advancement and climate change has a resounding effect. Scott Pruitt, an outspoken climate change denier, is the newly appointed and confirmed Administrator of the EPA (never mind the fact that he has sued the EPA on 13 occasions). He disagrees with the facts on climate change and its effects on the health of the environment: after all, we are in an "age of radical subjectivism." Under this administration, Trump will oversee massive cuts to the budget, employment, and work of the EPA, allowing corporations to run its roads and tracks through the land like a synthesized backbone, to purge its sludge in the lakes, and to emit loads of gas into the vast atmosphere. Like the "poor old sea turtle [...] depositing her five gallons of doomed eggs," even a most natural process seems manufactured.
This, I argue, is not a case of ignorance: it's one of purposeful self-destruction.
Eye-opening post! Hopefully Trump and his Board will realize that their thoughts on the climate and the environment are wrong before anything detrimental has occurred. Additionally with the Trump Administration, there are still plenty of people that are polluting the world and the organisms that thrive in it, especially those in the ocean. Change must happen soon!
ReplyDeleteI really like how you took very current and relevant news and tied it into the piece we read. I also liked how you did sort of a play on words with "Economic Protection Agency," which is, sadly, becoming more accurate.
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