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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 12:47 PM Apr 2017

EPA ending program to prepare for climate change

The Trump regime is halting all efforts to prevent climate change, eliminating programs to monitor climate change, even forbidding agencies from using the phrase climate change. So it’s only logical that they should also close down the only program directed at helping states deal with the inevitable collision with this freight train they’re not even attempting to slow.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is shutting down a program at its headquarters that helps states and localities adapt to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels.


Because there’s no need to prepare for a Chinese hoax. And also because fighting rising sea levels and changing weather conditions is much easier when it all comes as a surprise.

. . .

To be fair, it’s not as if Team Trump treats the climate any differently than any other area. When their policy can turn 180 degrees in the space of 24 hours, what’s the point of having a strategy? Planning, consistency, and follow-through are for losers who are tied down by facts. Trump is flexible. Or at least flexible when it comes to throwing missiles to prop up his poll numbers.


https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/10/1651899/-EPA-ending-program-to-prepare-for-climate-change
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EPA ending program to prepare for climate change (Original Post) CousinIT Apr 2017 OP
None of this matters to them because they all believe we're about to be raptured. Vinca Apr 2017 #1
With this crew of intellectual midgets supposedly running justhanginon Apr 2017 #2

Vinca

(50,276 posts)
1. None of this matters to them because they all believe we're about to be raptured.
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 01:03 PM
Apr 2017

They're nuts . . . the whole lot of them.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
2. With this crew of intellectual midgets supposedly running
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 02:23 PM
Apr 2017

the country, we are a 1000 times more likely to get ruptured than raptured.

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