Darth Wedgius wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 4:22 pm
Trump doesn't believe in anthropogenic global warming, and I disagree with him on that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/opinion/sunday/republicans-climate-change-polls.html
Being a Republican doesn't mean not believing in global warming, or even anthropogenic global warming.
Next.
Okay, so Trump and the majority of the Republican party either don't believe in global warming, or deny it for political reasons, as we covered.
So, lets go on to the air we breath. Trump reversed many, many air pollution regulations, as well as environmental regulations. Here's a good list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html
It also has a good summary report that is extensively cited and researched:
Adverse health impacts.
States will also suffer other dangerous environmental and health
effects from the repeal of the Waste Prevention Rule. The Waste Prevention Rule was anticipated
to cut emissions of VOCs, a precursor to ozone, by 250,000-267,000 tons annually and reduce
toxic air pollutants, such as benzene, by 1,860-2,030 tons each year.
112 Increases in smog and
toxic air pollutants significantly increase the rates of asthma, heart disease and lung disease and
the risk of cancer in communities surrounding oil and gas fields.113
For example, Kern County is the site of more than 95 percent of all federal drilling in California,
and parts of the county are in nonattainment with the 2008 federal 8-hour ozone standard and
federal fine particulate matter standards, as well as certain state standards.114 Due to this excess
pollution, including methane, particulate matter, and VOCs, this community has an increased
risk of asthma, heart disease, lung disease, and certain cancers.115 Kern County leads the state of
California in number of days with air quality concerns due to particulate pollution.116
https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/climate-and-health-showdown-in-the-courts.pdf
So I suppose that we're left with two choices.
1) Trump doesn't believe the science that dumping shit into the air and making other people breath it kills them.
2) Trump wants to kill thousands of people because money is more important.
I would have said number 2 was saturday morning cartoon villain and he just didn't believe the science, but then Corona happened, and yep, it turns out killing a few thousand people for some extra money in a rich man's pocket literally is the Republican party policy.
So you tell me: anti science, or pro-murder here?