StefanAVFC Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Oh for **** sake Quote Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Dissenter, to Lead E.P.A. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change — and much of the E.P.A. itself. Mr. Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign. Mr. Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “war on coal.” Mr. Pruitt has been in lock step with those views. “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind,” he wrote inNational Review earlier this year. “That debate should be encouraged — in classrooms, public forums, and the halls of Congress. It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. Dissent is not a crime.” A meeting on Monday between the president-elect and former Vice President Al Gore may have given environmental activists a glimmer of hope that Mr. Trump was moderating his campaign stance. Mr. Trump told New York Times editors and reporters that he does “think there is some connectivity” between human activity and a warming planet.With the choice of Mr. Pruitt, that hope will have faded. “During the campaign, Mr. Trump regularly threatened to dismantle the E.P.A. and roll back many of the gains made to reduce Americans’ exposures to industrial pollution, and with Pruitt, the president-elect would make good on those threats,” said Ken Cook, head of the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research and advocacy organization. “It’s a safe assumption that Pruitt could be the most hostile E.P.A. administrator toward clean air and safe drinking water in history,” he added. You hire a climate change dissenter to run the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. Not just that, but he's in the process of suing the EPA. So he'll be suing his future self. This has gone beyond absurd and is into dangerous territory now. Edited December 8, 2016 by StefanAVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted December 8, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2016 Another in the parade of facepalm appointments, up there with appointing a Secretary of Education who has spent decades trying to undermine the principle of public education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted December 8, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) 22 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Oh for **** sake You hire a climate change dissenter to run the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. Not just that, but he's in the process of suing the EPA. So he'll be suing his future self. This has gone beyond absurd and is into dangerous territory now. Don't worry there's not long left now anyway as it'll all be over soon. I console myself with the fact that out of the billions upon billions of humans that have lived and died over the centuries, at least we're some of the lucky few to get to see how it all ends. Imagine dying in say 2005 - you would have been so close yet so far. Edited December 8, 2016 by TheAuthority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Calm down guys... ya, they can slow down things or maybe even bump things in a much worse direction again, but long term trends are all working against the fossil fuel gang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 ill bet a tenner with you that we humans are still here in 3005 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Question: How many of us have all sorts of things produced in countries where they actively poison the snot out of the local environment? but happily enjoy the nice clean air and water that we have for the most part ensured we enjoy?? Maybe we deserve to consume some of the shit we happily allow our poorer global cousins to bathe in??? Enjoy your Xmas shopping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 8, 2016 Moderator Share Posted December 8, 2016 I believe in Mr Trumps commitment to clean water and I look forward to buying it from Nestle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted December 8, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2016 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: ill bet a tenner with you that we humans are still here in 3005 Make it a thousand and you're on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 The EPA pick is a massive middle finger to environmentalists, and a massive green light to to fossil fuel industry. The only hope is that Dems can snag a few Republicans in voting this asshole down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 We'll might still be around in 3005, but it would be some Mad Max type of existence if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_c Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I fairly certain it's come to the point in the movie now, where a British banker called StJohn-Smyth turns up, bangs Trump's wife and discovers his secret plot to flood San Francisco. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Do the people put into these jobs need approval from the wider party or is that it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted December 9, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2016 He's hired a fast food mogul as his labour minister. Shockingly, he's opposed to more or less anything that improves the life of the kind of people he employs. Trumps going to make everything better! Where's that banging the table laughing emoticon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 1 minute ago, Chindie said: He's hired a fast food mogul as his labour minister. Shockingly, he's opposed to more or less anything that improves the life of the kind of people he employs. He objects to minimum wage and government regulations on working conditions. #buildtheswamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 The latest nonsense to come from the States: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/star-wars-rogue-one-alt-right-boycott-a7464806.html Quote It’s now day two of the online protests against the upcoming Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One, and folks are sounding off in support and opposition of the film with the hashtag #DumpStarWars. It all started when members of the alt-right—you know, the brand spanking new racist movement of white supremacists, who feel emboldened following Donald Trump’s election win—became very upset at the film's scriptwriter, Chris Weitz, and his supposed "anti-white agenda." Even before the post-election shock settled, Weitz and several others behind the Star Wars universe condemned the rising Islamophobic, racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic incidents of harassment witnessed throughout the country by placing those damn safety pins on their profile in solidarity with people of color and the LGBT community. Weitz also sent racist folks into a frenzy with the following tweet that’s since been deleted. "Please note that the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organization,” he tweeted back in November. "Opposed by a multi-cultural group led by brave women." This stance against white supremacy was apparently too much to handle and calls for a boycott surfaced on Reddit. A few of those voices eventually created the #DumpStarWars hashtag on Twitter. The alt-right really are special snowflakes aren't they. All seems to come from this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 If I were advising the alt-right on tactics, I would say pinning their hopes on people not going to watch Star Wars probably isn't the strongest card in their pack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 10 hours ago, Seat68 said: Do the people put into these jobs need approval from the wider party or is that it? They need Congressional confirmation, and the GOP has a majority, so chances are most of his nominees will get approved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted December 9, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2016 Cabinet level positions (Secretary of XXX) need congressional confirmation. Others, like National Security Advisor, Chief of Staff, etc. don't, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Standing Rock showed what can be done and what needs to be done. Democracy is a participant sport. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 I predict that by hook or by crook, Trump won't be president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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