Here's a story from today. Rivers, lakes and oceans are under enormous pressure from pollution (wastewater runoff), overpopulation and over-fishing, etc. It is of course well documented that there are massive quantities of plastic in the oceans. All of the wildlife in these bodies of water are equally under threat. The Great Barrier Reef is rapidly dying. Polar bears are in dire shape now because of the melting ice caps and could disappear altogether. It goes on and on and on....drought and general climate warming seem to get worse by the year.
We in the United States should be environmental leaders--and we have been--but when Republicans are in office we go backwards. I cannot fathom how any person could not be a rabid environmentalist--could not want to protect our precious planet. But, let's be candid, Republicans/conservatives the biggest, most narrow-minded tools on the Earth--always waving off environmental protection in their zeal to throw up another cheap housing development on what was once farmland; always eager to roll back water- and air-quality and other environmental regulations so some industry won't be inconvenienced. Trump has installed staunch anti-environmentalist as head of the EPA--an utterly disgusting move. In the near future--sooner than we think--extreme measures will have to be taken to literally save this planet for humanity because the ignorance and short-sightedness and corruption of people like Scott Pruitt. Trump's Interior Secretary wants to open more land in national parks and national monuments to drilling.
The conservatives who are always yodeling about how environmental regulations hamper the economy are wrong. And even if it were true, we should all be fine with it as, in my view, there is nothing more important than protecting the environment and the planet. Think how much the planet has been degraded in just, say, the last 100 years--massively degraded. Think of what the situation will be like 100 or even 200 years from now. We should be the global leader in environmental protection--but conservatives would rather make a buck, and thus we have the president of China taking a shot at Trump in his speech two days ago on the issue of global warming.
World's deepest lake crippled by putrid algae, poaching and pollution | World news | The Guardian