It’s not just our planet

Trump found success in draining the swamp and diverting the nation’s attention from the environment. Instead of a swamp we now have a criminal cesspool from heinous scandals that have pushed environmental problems aside.

Scott Pruitt, the former EPA administrator, rolled back 76 environmental regulations and resigned after ripping off taxpayers amongst ethics scandals. The new administrator, Andrew Wheeler, who lobbied for coal companies and fought the EPA, will keep it that way. Some regulations could have been rolled back, but the dumping of toxic waste into waterways, a ban on pesticides, water pollution, endangered species and an array of other factors badly affecting the environment, which were canceled, bleed ignorance.

As Trump deals with the criminals he’s hired will he also ask for forgiveness? He claims to be a Christian. Supposedly he’s broken a few of the Ten Commandments, but the New Testament contains many pro-Earth messages. Isn’t this why we’ve learned so much about what our civilized world has done to the environment? Our climate is naturally changing, but because of humans it’s changing 10 times faster.

Obama explained it best: “We can pay a little now or a lot later.” It’s not just our planet. Steven A. Birt Noank

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