Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2017

DON'T WORRY BLEACHED CHEETO WON'T DESTROY THE EPA FOREVER


In case this got lost in the MY DICK INAUGURATION WAS BIGGER THAN ANYBODY ELSE S KERFUFFLE and the EXECUTIVE ORDER SHUFFLE here is one of the headlines you should have been afraid of --

President Trump institutes media blackout at EPA


Read More:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/01/24/trump-bans-epa-employees-from-updating-public-via-press-social-media/Anr90pkwhavC2kzK8pwsyK/story.html




I remember reading about California back in the 1960s and 1970s. There were air quality reports on the news so that people with infants, asthma sufferers, and the aged would know not to go outside. There was this word on the news every single day in California. That word was "Smog." 

The air was so bad in Cali, some people didn't know they lived near a huge mountain range for months after they initially moved to the area.

It was THAT bad. 

Things were bad in a lot of places in the U.S. prior to the EPA

Do you know who was partially responsible for cleaning California up?
The EPA and the standards they helped put in place. 

Do you know who should have jurisdiction and more teeth, teeth enough to stop DAPL from going close to water supplies? 

The EPA

Do you know who should have jurisdiction and more teeth, teeth enough to stop the state of Michigan from poisoning Flint ,Michigan residents?

The EPA

Do you know who wants deny there is even a chance that global warming is happening? 
Corporations that pollute at a high rate of speed. 

Do you know who profits from unfettered production, who profits from paying no attention at all what's released into the air and into the water? 

The one-percent that our potato-faced, bleached blond, trophy-wife-having Cheeto Satan Prez REALLY represents. 

Do you know who believes anything the 1% says even as the 1% creates legislation to kill them?
The Faux News watching Cheeto Satan-ettes. 

So it should kinda scare you that Cheeto is probably taking steps toward destroying the EPA

Rumored to be from an EPA staffer:
"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:
The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated. All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released. No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.
Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.
All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis. 
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon. But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now. 
We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon. But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.
We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."
The new administrations policy is likely "We don't need no stinkin EPA telling us how to pollute the planet into an extinction event."


The one-percenters know that they'll be fine no matter what (or so they think).

But the vast majority of the satan-ettes cannot afford to pay for triple filtered, recycled air and quadruple distilled, inverted, reverse osmosis filters on their water. But if they were dumb enough to believe Mexico was going to build a wall, then they'll believe anything -- including the fact that the EPA serves no purpose. 

If anything the EPA needs to be strengthened.  But Bleached Cheeto sent orders that the EPA is not supposed to be talking about their work and their reports anymore. This should scare you. Cheeto is silencing an agency that has a real function. I figure these are the next steps.

1. Stop the EPA  from publishing. 

2. Tell the satan-ettes that the EPA isn't doing anything but taking their tax dollars -- which looks true because nothing is being published

3. Weaken or destroy the agency's ability to function at every turn.

4. Those being regulated increase profits by cutting safety corners that the EPA used to enforce.

5. Tax payers won't have their taxes decreased by enough to buy an extra pizza per week but satan-ettes will be a-GRINNING because THEY WON -- while that can't figure out what's wrong with Aunt Becky May. 

6. Either the EPA will be blamed or Individual companies are blamed for individual scattered illnesses that are linked to poor water quality or poor air quality.

7. Either the EPA or individual companies are blamed for the subsequent deaths of infants, toddlers and old people (the weakest among us.)

8.  Large death toll event = EPA is blamed and destroyed if hasn't been destroyed already. Maybe a new just as weak agency with new acronym is created -- so that we can pretend something is resolved. This death event is treated as a one-off

9. Next Large death toll event = coincidence.

10. repeat steps 6 to 9 until enough people die,  maybe somebody you know.

11. Panic

12. The EPA is resurrected under a new name. 


I figure this whole cycle should take 20 or 30 years if the democrats continue to be as weak as they have been and no new party emerges. I figure less than 20% of us will be dead of pollution related diseases.

These things happen in cycles.

It's not a problem.

Don't worry.

Be Happy.


Pssst-- there are still areas near the freeway bad enough to make me ill after prolonged exposure. The EPA needs more teeth, not fewer. 

Friday, December 23, 2016

COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE


TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE
 IN CLIMATE CHANGE
 by ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER with an assist from T.A. 


Feeling Rebloggy 

I see your questions.
Each and every time I post on my Facebook page or tweet about my crusade for a clean energy future, I see them.

There are always a few of you, asking why we should care about the temperature rising, or questioning the science of climate change.
I want you to know that I hear you. Even those of you who say renewable energy is a conspiracy. Even those who say climate change is a hoax. Even those of you who use four letter words.
I've heard all of your questions, and now I have three questions for you. Let's put climate change aside for a minute. In fact, let's assume you're right.
First - do you believe it is acceptable that 7 million people die every year from pollution? That's more than murders, suicides, and car accidents - combined.
  • Every day, 19,000 people die from pollution from fossil fuels. Do you accept those deaths? Do you accept that children all over the world have to grow up breathing with inhalers?
Now, my second question: do you believe coal and oil will be the fuels of the future?
  • Besides the fact that fossil fuels destroy our lungs, everyone agrees that eventually they will run out. What's your plan then?
  • I, personally, want a plan. I don't want to be like the last horse and buggy salesman who was holding out as cars took over the roads. I don't want to be the last investor in Blockbuster as Netflix emerged. That's exactly what is going to happen to fossil fuels.
  • A clean energy future is a wise investment, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either wrong, or lying. Either way, I wouldn't take their investment advice.
  • Renewable energy is great for the economy, and you don't have to take my word for it. California has some of the most revolutionary environmental laws in the United States, we get 40% of our power from renewables, and we are 40% more energy efficient than the rest of the country. We were an early-adopter of a clean energy future.
  • Our economy has not suffered. In fact, our economy in California is growing faster than the U.S. economy. We lead the nation in manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, entertainment, high tech, biotech, and, of course, green tech.
I have a final question, and it will take some imagination.
  • There are two doors. Behind Door Number One is a completely sealed room, with a regular, gasoline-fueled car. Behind Door Number Two is an identical, completely sealed room, with an electric car. Both engines are running full blast.
  • I want you to pick a door to open, and enter the room and shut the door behind you. You have to stay in the room you choose for one hour. You cannot turn off the engine. You do not get a gas mask.
I'm guessing you chose the Door Number Two, with the electric car, right? Door number one is a fatal choice - who would ever want to breathe those fumes?
This is the choice the world is making right now.



To use one of the four-letter words all of you commenters love, I don't give a damn if you believe in climate change. I couldn’t care less if you're concerned about temperatures rising or melting glaciers. It doesn't matter to me which of us is right about the science.

I just hope that you'll join me in opening Door Number Two, to a smarter, cleaner, healthier, more profitable energy future. [Come with me if you want to live.*]
*= Last sentence added courtesy of commenter T.A.  

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https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658