• meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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          Took us out of the Paris Climate agreement

          Opened up the national parks for drilling

          Removed protections for more than half of our wetlands

          Withdrew legal justification for factories to limit mercury emissions

          Removed carbon caps on power plants

          One hell of a symptom

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              Climate change has already created draughts and food shortages. It has already pushed animals into ecosystems where they don’t belong leading to destruction of those ecosystems. Ocean acidification has been killing fish populations.

              These have created instability in countries across the world as people grapple with worsening conditions. This has lead to conflicts that have created massive amounts of refugees, which in turn has been creating populist and authoritarian attitudes in the west as we deal with refugees knocking on our door. This has created massive rifts in our societies and ultimately is the connecting factor for the issues we face.

              As my old history professor would say about global conflicts- it’s the bottom of the 9th, the bases are loaded, and it’s always mother nature up to bat.

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                Then we shouldn’t have declared war on, and declared mother nature our enemie. We could have respected her and accepted reasonable limits, rather than growth, expansion and profit at all costs, especially to ourselves. And we can stop doing that.

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                  Oh yeah, we really screwed up the season by not picking Mother Nature in round one of the draft.

                  “Hi I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from such films as 'Man vs. Wild; the Road to Victory”

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          I would broadly agree with that, except for the documented attempts to subvert the election. I think that ones pretty uniquely bad