Forest fires are real, whether you believe in them or not | Scheneman

In 2024, in the midst of record droughts, historic hurricanes and rampant wildfires, there are still people – and sometimes entire political parties – who refuse to acknowledge the threat of global climate change.

In Donald Trump’s Republican Party, the range of views on the climate crisis can range from acknowledging that something is happening but it’s not our fault, to outright denial and the assumption that all these climate anomalies we are witnessing with our own eyes are part of some This is a sinister falsification.

As with the current climate, the situation is about to get worse.

Trump enters his second term armed with a detailed anti-environmental agenda, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation and its magnum opus, Project 2025. In the 900-page document, about 150 of those pages are dedicated to reversing the environmental progress we have made. that we have done over the past decades, and will create a warm, loving atmosphere in which the oil and gas giants will be encouraged to drill, baby, drill.

The Biden administration has plenty to criticize, but when it comes to environmental legislation, it has pushed things further than any president as climate has become an existential threat.

With Trump in control of the House and Senate, you can kiss those gains goodbye. What can be canceled will be. What cannot be undone will be undermined by the appointment of people like Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

The former congressman and New York gubernatorial candidate has vowed to deregulate the regulatory agency and begin paying more attention to the poor, ignored fossil fuel interests that have suffered for so long under a repressive regime, intending to rein in its record profits and sacred mission of creating shareholder value.

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