Fundamental misunderstanding
Oh good god, Trump thinks climate change is a matter of local clean air and water.
I am glad that my friend @EmmanuelMacron and the protestors in Paris have agreed with the conclusion I reached two years ago. The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2018
….in the world. I want clean air and clean water and have been making great strides in improving America’s environment. But American taxpayers – and American workers – shouldn’t pay to clean up others countries’ pollution.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2018
He’s telling us he wants clean air and water! As if that’s the (whole) issue! He has no idea what climate change is! He has no clue that it’s a global issue!
There aren’t enough exclamation points in the world…
That’s because Trump’s been using them as if there were an endless supply or something. He’s a profligate exclamation point waster.
Well, clean air could arguably fit, if you count carbon emissions as dirty.
But the Stable Genius was probably just confused again.
They should only have to clean up American corporate pollution. His weakening of the EPA and pollution standards in general ensures that American taxpayers and workers (and children, and seniors….) will be paying with their lives.
Trump is likely one of those people for whom Inhoffe’s snowball was a knockout argument against climate change. Case closed!
I find Trump’s dumbness to be dumbfounding.
Even if we go along with this notion of ignoring global climate change and just focus on pollution as if ecological science were still stuck in 1965, the fact is that pollution in other countries’ air and water also affects us. When overgrazing in China caused massive dust-storms ala the 1930s Dust Bowls in America, particulate matter made it all the way to the West Coast. Ocean pollution is affect OUR fisheries. Airborne chemicals in Mexico become acid rain the Gulf states.
I remember before Illinois outright banned smoking in restaurants and other public venues. At that point, it was required to have “Smoking” and “Non-Smoking” sections. I can think of multiple occasions when it was literally possible to sit in a non-smoking section, yet lean over and smoke, using an ashtray on the next table over, which was in the smoking area. And even when the areas were more distinct, most restaurants put the smoking section with their bar–which, of course, was located at the front for people who wanted a drink while they waited. You’d have to brave the clouds of smoke to get to your table, to go from table to restroom, and then again when you were leaving. And of course, waitstaff had to work in both areas, regardless.
Trump probably thought that arrangement was just fine.