News out of Trump-land today is that the president is signing an executive order to rollback environmental protections passed by President Obama. All the Republicans can seemingly agree on is to attack Obama’s actions; as a friend said to me, “They’re a bunch of spiteful mofos.”
We only have one Planet Earth, and we seem determined to ruin it, once again in the name of profit and jobs and “growth.” On a planet with shrinking resources, why is “growth” such a wonderful thing?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-will-dismantle-obama-environmental-regulations/
Guess What? There’s Only One Earth
W.J. Astore
The other day, I was watching a typical truck commercial on TV. It showed trucks literally tearing up the backroads, along with ATVs spinning and jumping and chewing up the countryside, all synonymous with “adventure” and “freedom.”
I remember those old Coors commercials featuring Mark Harmon. They were set in Colorado (I think) and featured him quietly extolling the virtues of barley and clean water. Now most Coors commercials are about self-indulgent partying (but please drink responsibly).
My point? We need a change in mindset — one that values nature and its preservation. We’re doomed if we keep selling the idea “you can have it all,” so go party and tear up nature — who cares as long as you’re having fun?
We act as if we have many planet earths, but we have only one. And we’re slowly and surely making…
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Bracing Views 
It’s time for regime change, before it is too late for all of us.
But who will carry it out?
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Barring impeachment, we have to wait until the elections in 2020.
How long the earth has is debatable. We’re probably past the point of reversing the effects of climate change; we can mitigate them, but not with this regime in the White House.
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