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On the last Saturday before Donald Trump took office, in January 2017, I watched the controlled chaos of a hackathon unfold in a library at the University of Pennsylvania. Volunteer archivists, librarians, and computer scientists were trawling government websites, looking for data sets about climate change to duplicate for safekeeping. Groups like this were meeting across the country. Flowcharts on whiteboards laid out this particular room’s priorities: copy decades of ice-core statistics from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; scrape the Environmental Protection Agency’s entire library of local air-monitoring results from the previous four years; find a way to preserve a zoomable map of the factories and power plants emitting the most greenhouse gases.

The fear was that the incoming administration would pull information like this from public view—and within a week, it did. By noon on Inauguration Day, the Trump administration had scrubbed mentions of climate change from the White House website. By May, officials had taken down the EPA’s page laying out climate science for the general public, as well as 108 pages associated with the Clean Power Plan, the landmark Obama policy meant to curb emissions from power plants—months before the Trump administration tried to repeal the policy altogether.

The administration’s goal was to bury the issue of climate change. Nothing was done to address it; the very mention of it was knocked from the national agenda—and, by extension, the international agenda. If Trump returns to office, he will surely double down on this strategy.

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not "ignore it", it's actively make it worse. Look at all of his coal bullshit. There's no economic reason to continue supporting coal

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this. He actively sold off public lands that were held in reserve for the future - it was OURS, now it just managed to line HIS pockets. Remind me again btw why I am supposed to be afraid of "socialism", but capitalism = perfection? :-(

[–] aew360@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have no patience with people who “just cant find it in their heart to support Biden again”. There is too fucking much at stake to hold Biden to these impossible standards.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly. They don’t seem to understand that the willful act of cutting of their own noses- spites every face in America.

But it’s never their fault.

especially when biden is one of the most progressive presidents in modern history

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell this to the “gEnOciDe jOe” bros. I’ll bet they still won’t lift a finger come November.

But remember, it won’t be their fault.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

knowing how much steve bannon made has way up in wow chat, the likelihood that all those "leftists" screaming that are actually 45 year old white male conservatives.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t doubt it for a second. And in the event they’re not- then they’re mindless drones doing the work of 45 year old white male conservatives.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know Joe pumped more oil and signed more land off for drilling than trump did, right? The climate cannot survive another term of America.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's usually the response I get from angy Americans when they realize no matter who they elect, next year there will be record oil production.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only worthlessly whining about it online to a bunch of strangers would fix the world’s problems, people like you would lock up that Nobel Prize indefinitely.

Oh well, I guess the rest of us will have to keep doing the shit you don’t like until the day comes where everything is perfect- so that you can take credit for all the hard work.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that you're angry that I said factual statements about the administration. You're right, everyone shut up about the genocide and climate apocalypse!

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who’s angry? And what something factual you said? I must have missed that part.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You seem angry. If you're not then you're just a miserable person to communicate with.

This is obviously what I'm referring to.

You're angry at the wrong people. If you're not angry about this, then you should be.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I’m not angry about that. What I’m angry about is people like you willing to let Trump destroy America because of your stubbornness.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're okay with Biden destroying the planet, but get angry at the thought of trump destroying your country? Talk about American exceptionalism 🤮.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I generally don’t subscribe to sensationalism. Your droning on about your one little issue isn’t enough to move the needle when doing so sacrificing Ed the democracy of the country I live in and that contains all of my loved ones.

So yeah. I’m okay with it. Entirely okay with it. Because its Also mostly bullshit.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Hahahaha, good luck with that.

[–] chknbwl@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This dude, in the same breath as claiming to be a dictator "on day one", said his main priority is to drill, baby, drill. He, along with all of his voters, have openly opted to make the climate crisis worse. Simply put, republicans are Eco-terrorists. The world, not just the US, cannot afford to have Republicans in charge anymore.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump's approach is to pour gasoline into the dumpster fire. Ignoring it is almost everyone else's approach.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the climate can’t afford another full 365 days of our current carbon output. Like, in reality, it can’t do one more day. It couldn’t have done about the last five decades. But it’s doing it because we won’t stop. It’s likely already too late. But the world does have insane healing properties. Maybe if we stopped, it could heal itself.

But this “slow down a little by 2050” bullshit is just poppycock.

#GuysCanWeLikeChillOutABitOnTheClimate

[–] Philo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

The presidency can't afford another Trump presidency.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It couldnt afford the first one

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too bad do many American voters also ignore it.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

his approach isn't to ignore it; it's to actively make it worse

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Because roughly 60% of likely voters think climate change is a "false religion" that has nothing to do with the climate.

Think about that. Why would a republican candidate that is only about themselves ever do anything about climate change? They poll better when they do the opposite.

We have to be careful here, because we're getting dangerously close to denial about the popularity of climate change denial. We're not winning, and even though it's an existential crisis, "Well you'll see I'm right when the world is on fire" actually makes people LESS likely to support efforts to fight climate change. Think about that too.